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Looking at the past, present and future of adventure tourism, Adventure Tourism: the new frontier examines the product, the adventure tourist profile, and issues such as supply, geography and sustainability.

This book focuses on Iran to explore the question of how the nature of industrial organizations and the whole system they constitute can exert a great influence on an industry's competitiveness and resilience.

This book offers an ethnographic analysis of how corporate culture has been transformed in the age of globalization and promotes the importance of a national ideology's role in corporate culture studies.

The issues surrounding the provision, preparation and development of food products is fundamental to every human being on the planet.

This is the first book to critically explore international leisure during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Discover the secrets to success in sport-related tourism and adventure travel!

This book is about promising collaborative avenues for connecting Finland and India with value propositions for enterprises, consumers and investors worldwide.

This book focuses on strategies to achieve economic diversification in Asian landlocked countries.

This book analyzes spatial and temporal patterns of international trade from a geographical perspective.

This book demonstrates why and how social activism targeting companies can produce unintended consequences.

While experiential staging is well documented in tourism studies, not enough has been written about the diverse types of experiences and expectations that visitors bring to the tourist space and how communities respond to, or indeed challenge, these expectations.

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'Business Travel and Tourism' provides a comprehensive, international overview of business tourism from both a theoretical and practical perspective.

Political economy, in its various guises and transfigurations, is a research philosophy that presents both social commentary and theoretical progress and is concerned with a number of different topics: politics, regulation and governance, production systems, social relations, inequality and development amongst many others.

This introductory guide offers innovative ideas and strategies to students undertaking their first social science research work.

A unique chance to explore different aspects of place, heritage, and tourismFor many nations around the world, cultural tourism is not only a major industry but also a support for national identity and a means for preserving heritage.

This book emphasises the work, the remarkable contributions, and the lifetime achievements of internationally respected scholars who have made lifelong contribution to advancing tourism studies and the dissemination of tourism-based knowledge and education across the world.

The scientific and technological advances that influence the protection of cultural heritage are developing at an ever-increasing pace.

How do leading retailers create value for their customers?

'Sense of place' has become a familiar phrase, used to describe emotional attachment to a particular location.

Corporate Finance: The Basics is a concise introduction to the inner workings of finance at the company level.

Fierce global competition in the tourism industry is now focused on integral parts of supply chains rather than on individual firms.

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for everyone who wants to have both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.

More than seventy years following the D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944, Normandy's war heritage continues to intrigue visitors and researchers.

Many design students dream of opening a retail store of their own, but the actual process of starting their own business can be quite daunting.

This book analyzes the current economic situations in African countries at the local, regional, and national level.

Although Foucault's work has been employed and embraced enthusiastically by some 'mobilities' scholars, discussion across these two traditions to date has mostly been partial and unsystematic.

This set re-issue 5 volumes originally published between 1985 and 1994.

The dynamic and fast-expanding business events sector plays a vital role in the professional lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide by providing settings in which they can meet for the purposes of negotiation, deliberation, motivation, the dissemination of knowledge, and the celebration of their greatest career-related achievements.

Much of the existing literature seeks to make sense of tourism based on singular approaches such as visuality, identity, mobility, performance and globalised consumption.

In this insightful text, Cristina Ziliani and Marco Ieva trace the evolution of thinking, contemporary themes and practice in loyalty management.

Gay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed and debated.

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The emerging present is a fast-changing context for incumbent organizations, especially in market segments where online behavior is replacing physical proximity, and users engage with digital platforms for the acquisition of products and services.

Social media is fundamentally changing the way travellers and tourists search, find, read and trust, as well as collaboratively produce information about tourism suppliers and tourism destinations.

Measuring productivity is often considered a difficult task for industries in the services sectors.

Designed as a primary text for courses in health care economics and policy analysis, this comprehensive work places the issues and economic analysis of the health care industry in the context of market forces driving the industry, including negotiated markets, managed care, and the growing influence of oligopolies.

This accessible book introduces students to the theories, concepts and skills required to promote an event successfully.

Taking a unique comparative approach to the respective development paths of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), this book shows that people and governments in all three countries are faced with similar challenges of heightened insecurity, caused by liberalization and structural adjustment.

China is forecast to be the primary tourist destination and tourist-generating country by 2020.

This handbook presents a timely, broad-ranging, and provocative overview of the essential nature of ecotourism.

This book focuses on the tourism industry in conjunction with the impact of COVID-19 from the perspective that it is both negatively impacting the industry while also offering an opportunity to rise from the ashes.

The recent surfacing of actor-network theory (ANT) in tourism studies correlates to a rising interest in understanding tourism as emergent thorough relational practice connecting cultures, natures and technologies in multifarious ways.

Fast moving consumer goods retailing is a highly competitive market.

This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of animals as a source of food within the context of tourism.

The 21st century seems to be on the move, perhaps even more so than the last.

This book investigates the selection process of heritagisation to understand what specific pasts are being selected or rejected for representation, who is selecting them, how and to whom they are being represented and why they are being presented, or dismissed, in the ways that they are.