Retail and wholesale industries

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, small businesses are especially vulnerable.

In May 1993 the British Mountaineering Council met to discuss the future of high altitude tourism.

First published in 1931.

This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism.

International Cases on Tourism Destination Management and COVID-19 provides students, lecturers and practitioners with an essential real-life resource on how different tourism destinations around the world have been impacted by, and responded to, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Offering a holistic approach to positive luxury, this comprehensive book provides a novel framework grounded in the new paradigm of Transformative Luxury Research (TLR) stream.

The book offers a critical exploration of the integration of AI, blockchain, and metaverse technology in the hospitality and tourism industry to investigate the potential of these technologies in revolutionizing the industry.

The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of qualitative research in sport and exercise.

Published in 1999, this book presents the results of an ethnographic study of the emergence of co-operative production networks among hog farm workers in Iowa.

This book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin.

Revised and updated, the fourth edition of The Economics of Tourism Destinations provides a guide to the economic aspects of tourism for students and practitioners to decipher the methods of measurement of supply, demand, trends and impacts as well as the role of tourism in development strategy for destinations and regional development.

This timely book provides a critical account of the role that animals play in the tourism industry, representing an extension of the sustainability imperative and environmental theory.

The retail market in the UK is worth more than GBP400 billion annually and employs over 3 million workers, while in the US 29 million people create over USD $4 trillion of revenue through the industry.

This book explores the notion of rurality and how it is used and produced in various contexts, including within populist politics which derives their legitimacy from the rural-urban divide.

Consumer behaviour includes individual decision-making (IDM).

This comprehensive handbook delves into the multifaceted dimensions of the role of gender in tourism, spanning education, research, and practice.

Tourism in Cuba - described by Fidel Castro as 'the evil we have to have' - has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of development and poverty alleviation.

This Volume of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law explores emerging trends and key developments in international economic law.

Power System Flexibility provides a consolidated foundation in the design, planning, and operation of intermittent highly renewable power systems-integrating core theory, mathematical analysis, and modern international applications in an unusually multidisciplinary approach.

Internationally renowned experts assess the role of retail work in modern industrial economies in Retail Work.

Retailing is changing extremely rapidly in the emerging economies, both as a driver of social and economic change, and a consequence of economic development and the rise of consumer societies.

India has been in transition for the last two decades, moving from a mixed economy toward a market economy model, and the Indian hospitality industry is metamorphosing into a mature industry.

Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets.

The total number of foreign tourists received in countries throughout the world was 530 million in 1995.

This book analyzes the phenomenally profitable "e;Red Tourism"e; industry in China, in which visitors make pilgrimages to sites of historical significance to the Communist Party of China and the Chinese Revolution.

Business History and International Business are cognate subjects.

Originally published in 1971, this book uses the famous Tinbergen/Theil approach to the theory of economic policy, demonstrating the place of fiscal policy in a realistic policy context.

Consumer behaviour is one of the most explored topics in tourism and hospitality marketing, interchangeably denoted by the terms 'traveller behaviour', 'tourist behaviour' or 'guest behaviour'.

Qualität ist ein zentraler Erfolgsfaktor für jedes Dienstleistungsunternehmen.

The tourism industry, as one of the main drivers of creative economy, gains more importance in growth policies both at national and regional levels.

Globally the hospitality and tourism industry is evolving and undergoing radical changes.

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Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art explores cinematic and artistic representations of migration and mobility in Europe from the 1990s to today.

Liminality is not typically associated with tourism, even though it can be viewed as an intrinsic element of the social/cultural experiences of tourism.

This is the first book published in English on the new international value theory, presented by Yoshinori Shiozawa in 2007.

This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy.

Tourism and Politics aims to disseminate ideas on the critical discourse of tourism and tourists as they relate to politics, through a series of case studies from around the world written by specialists with an emphasis on linking theory to practice.

The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States.

Mobilising Place Management makes an important contribution to the mobilities field by arguing for the need to rethink place management.

Mobility aims to take the pulse of this enormously expanded and energetic field.

Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry uses a step by step approach to enable students to independently master the field.

This original social science text approaches marathon running as an everyday practice and a designed event, to draw upon and contribute to the literature on practice theory, urban events, rhythmanalysis and mobility.

Over the past few years the hospitality industry has become a lot more sustainable than it used to be.

Crisis and Disaster Management for Sport is the first book to introduce key concepts and best practice in crisis and disaster management in sport and international sports events.

With the current rise of metropolitan regions as a present location and driver of the development of rural tourism, agritourism, food tourism and nature tourism, there is a need to analyse the major economic, social, political and managerial aspects of these types of tourism which occur within the rural-urban fringe.

Growing competition between countries and cities over attracting infrastructure, investment, tourists, capital and national and international status mean that today, a negative image is more harmful than ever.

The new millennium has been characterised by several crises ranging from dramatic acts of terror to natural disasters, as well as the most significant economic recession since the late 1920s.

By 2030, China will be the world's largest tourism destination, holidays in Outer Space will be the ultimate luxury experience, extreme Swedish ironing will be an Olympic Sport, embedded technologies will be the norm in future tourists and skiing in the Alps will be no more.

This book assesses the 2008-2009 financial crisis and its ramifications for the global economy from a multidisciplinary perspective.