Retail and wholesale industries

This book reinterprets the notion of the commons by tracing how it has been mobilised in the aftermath of economic crisis.

This readable and concise research-based book discusses seven simple rules that will help businesses and individuals improve their customer satisfaction and workplace environments - and make the world a little better and more pleasant.

This fully updated new edition of a respected text retains the original's comprehensive and practical approach to food supply chain management, and introduces a global perspective and a wide range of new material.

Maybe you love exotic and unusual flavors as well as high quality products, and you wish that there was a way for you to make a living selling not just food, but food that you love talking about, tasting, and sharing with others.

This book calls for rethinking the meaning of sustainable development in tourism and explores how sustainability and resilience could be integrated.

This book explores the phenomena of school tours and tourism.

This book evaluates Country of Origin (COO) research from new critical perspectives, providing insights on how COO shapes both consumer behaviour and business trends, and how marketers can overcome or take advantage of COO in their strategies.

This timely book presents a unique collection of "e;new normal"e; trends, issues, and challenges of tourism and hospitality management and practices from the perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Air Transport and Regional Development Policies is one of three interconnected books related to a four-year European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action established in 2015.

Selling and delivering a project to a satisfied client, and making a profit, is a complex task.

Nurturing Mobilities employs new empirical material and an innovative theoretical framing to bring new clarity to why families travel today - and what happens when they do.

The Power of New Urban Tourism explores new forms of tourism in urban areas with their social, political, cultural, architectural and economic implications.

China's love for luxury is not a phenomenon brought on by the contemporary luxury market, but has been a part of Chinese culture and history for generations.

Travel often inspires the creation of narratives about journeys and destinations, more so with the increasing availability of online platforms, applications for smartphones and tablets, and various other social media technologies.

Understanding the global hotel business is not possible without paying specific attention to hotel chain management and dynamics.

Neither the tourism industry nor the tourist has responded convincingly to calls for more responsibility in tourism.

Museums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies.

Tourism and Indigenous Peoples is a unique text examining the role of indigenous societies in tourism and how they interact within the tourism nexus.

The Women of Cairo: Scenes of Life in the Orient, first published in 1929, describes the trip to Egypt and other locations in the Ottoman Empire taken by French Romanticist Gerard de Nerval.

Management Science in Hospitality and Tourism is a timely and unique book focusing on management science applications.

Geleitwort "Wie intensiv und in welchen Bereichen der Supply Chain sollte ich mit meinen Herstellern kooperieren?

This book provides a review of the current theory and practice of experiential tourism and how it is marketed.

This book looks at the recent emergence of "e;new ordinary consumption,"e; in urban China and defines new ordinary consumption as a consumer practice in which people routinely integrate products and items, traditionally reserved for special occasions, into their daily lives, to accentuate their own well-being.

This SpringerBrief offers an academic perspective on the trend of 'pop-up' retailing.

Commemorative Events emphasise remembering.

Countryside recreation has become an increasingly popular leisure activity, with rural recreation offering an escape from the stresses of life in the modern city.

Concerns over vanishing destinations such as the Great Barrier Reef, Antarctica, and the ice cap on Mt.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the themes and concepts related to nature-based tourism development.

This book is for marketers (from newbies to CMO level) who want to learn why and how to use mobile marketing to engage and convert consumers.

This book is concerned with the spatial aspects of the distributive trades.

This is the first book to consider the intersections of sport, international development and environmental sustainability.

Managing Sustainable Tourism tackles the tough issues within the tourism industry, such as impacts on the natural and built environment and concerns for the history, heritage, and culture of local communities to provide answers that produce positive and quality economic growth for the tourism industry.

Ethnodevelopment is a well-established concept in the field of development studies.

'Business Development in Licensed Retailing: a unit manager's guide' details the indispensable skills and techniques needed to manage units within licensed retail organisations in a flexible and entrepreneurial manner.

Tourism can take many different forms and types but increasingly it is viewed as one of the most innovative industries.

In recent years there has been a considerable interest in the cultural aspects of tourism such as the impacts of culture on tourism planning, development, management, and marketing.

Cities are staging more events than ever.

This book offers essential insights into various management concepts for retail and consumer packaged goods companies.

Using in-depth case studies, this volume shows how the infrastructure of tourism has transformed cities throughout North America.

This book examines and offers insights into original, transdisciplinary, conceptual, and methodological perspectives on gastronomic tourism experiences from both tourists and service providers' perspectives.

Just a generation ago the notion that holidays should be invested with ethical and political significance would have sounded odd.

This book examines the interplay between trade and the environment, with a focus on the Indian textile sector.

This collection critically examines tourism as a site of intercultural communication, drawing on the analytical tools afforded by the discipline toward better understanding contemporary tourism discourses and the broader societal structures of power and ideologies in which they are situated.

Tourism Reassessed: Blight or blessing?

In fewer than three hundred years tourism has become a global service industry of great economic, cultural and political importance.

Air Transport and Regional Development Methodologies is one of three interconnected books related to a four-year European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action established in 2015.

European retailers have successfully internationalised their activities in Europe but have been less successful in North America.

Deriving from a special issue on "e;China Watching"e; (Journal of China Tourism Research), this book presents the readers with a collection of seven independent research reports that adopt cross-cultural communication and cultural studies approaches to China tourism.

Political ecology explicitly addresses the relations between the social and the natural, arguing that social and environmental conditions are deeply and inextricably linked.

While economy or budget hotels have been popular in western countries since the end of the Second World War, they have only emerged as a sector in their own right in China since the mid-1990s.