Retail and wholesale industries

This textbook provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and fully integrated treatment of retailing as a) and industry, b) a force shaping social attitudes and contemporary culture, and c) a force for change in modern townscapes.

This book unlocks an understanding of video games as virtual travel.

Insights from Visitor Studies: A purpose-oriented model for museums provides a systematic overview of the value of visitor studies and, for the first time in English, a comprehensive overview of the development of visitor studies in mainland China.

Uniquely combining employment relations and the hospitality and tourism fields, this book draws on recently published sources to give readers a comprehensive and internationally comparative perspective on the subject area.

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In June 2014, Brazil opened the twentieth FIFA World Cup with a spectacular ceremony.

This vital volume clearly explains cutting-edge theories and views on strategic management in applied management fundamentals in the hospitality and tourism industry.

The role of governance has only recently begun to be researched and discussed in order to better understand tourism policy making and planning, and tourism development.

This book provides a varied collection of recent research relating to small businesses in tourism.

This new textbook, authored by a team of expert researchers and lecturers based at the London College of Fashion, is one of the first in the field to examine strategic management in the context of the fashion industry, catering specifically for students hoping to work in the sector.

Outdoor adventure activities are becoming an increasingly popular part of physical education programs.

This book offers international perspectives on the economic, social, geopolitical, and environmental implications of COVID-19 on tourism, an unprecedented situation for this sector.

This book discusses the contemporary trade dynamics necessary for companies to grow competitively in the global marketplace, extending the conceptual and analytical foundations of international trade and economy in North America.

Just as the crash of 1929 did not presage the downfall of the United States, neither will the economic crisis of 1997 mean the end of the rise of Asia and the Pacific Rim.

This book aims to be a showcase for cutting edge research offering a high-edited selection of the best paper submitted to the 2006 tourism conference at the University of Surrey, which itself is a celebration of 40 years of tourism education at the University.

Sports Tourism: participants, policy and providers is an unparalleled text that explains sports tourism as a social, economic and cultural phenomenon that stems from the unique interaction of activity, people and place.

In one of the first books to treat retailing as a subject of serious analysis, Retailing and the Public examines the state of one of the most important industries in the country.

Retail marketing is undergoing cataclysmic change, driven by upheavals in media, consumer attitudes, and the retail industry itself.

Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management is a unique text, which links the three crucial areas of tourism: impacts, planning and management.

This timely and innovative book provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of the associational tourism economy, exploring the collaborative nature of tourism as an interconnected system, with a focus on tourism clusters, networks, and ecosystems.

The Routledge Handbook of Halal Hospitality and Islamic Tourism provides a greater understanding of the current debates associated with Islamic tourism and halal hospitality in the context of businesses, communities, destinations, and the wider socio-political context.

With case studies from the USA, Canada, Chile, and other countries in Latin America, American Chinese Restaurants examines the lived experiences of what it is like to work in a Chinese restaurant.

Sexual spaces, normally inhabited by (mostly) female sex workers, are understood as masculine spaces, and positioned for and around male consumers.

Conferences and conventions are one of the fastest growing areas of the events industry.

This book provides an overview of the operation of container terminals and the associated risks with such operations.

Medical and health tourism is a significant area of growth in the export of medical, health and tourism services.

This book brings together cutting edge research and applications of social media and related technologies, their uses by consumers and businesses in travel, tourism and hospitality.

This unique volume examines death from a socio-cultural events perspective.

Die Logistik hat sich in der Praxis seit langem etabliert.

Pressure on national and local governments to rapidly develop their tourism potential to meet demand and produce benefits, makes it more essential than ever to plan carefully and consider the human and environmental impacts of tourism development.

Dieses Grundlagenwerk führt in die Praxis der Planung und Gestaltung aller Aufgabenbereiche des technischen Vertriebs ein und vermittelt lerngerecht die Lehrinhalte für die Ausbildung zum Vertriebsingenieur.

The West is one of the strongest and most enduring place images in the world and its myth is firmly rooted in popular culture - whether novels, film, television, music, clothing and even video games.

This book advances the tourism and hospitality industry's contribution to meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12 of responsible consumption and production.

Tourism is often a key driver of economic growth in many countries.

This unique introductory resource provides a broad foundation of knowledge on the gay and lesbian market segment.

This timely and interdisciplinary book is the first to examine mountain tourism and local communities with a pro-poor lens.

This book is the first to systematically introduce China's tourism education system and the various tourism education practices in China to the international audience and stakeholders.

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.

A comprehensive consolidation of data for the world, this book gives a short precis of each nation, each nation's history, its topography and a chronology of the development of geodetic surveying and coordinate systems for that specific nation.

Containing some of the most recent and original studies on parking regulation and management from different disciplines, this book offers rigorous analysis from top researchers with a clear intention to deliver policy implications and provide information to the public.

Retail is going through difficult times and is suffering the consequences of both the economic crisis and the digitization of society.

Sport volunteering is becoming an increasingly popular motive for international travel.

Information Systems: The e-Business Challenge Indisputable, e-Business is shaping the future inspiring a growing range of innovative business models.

This book explores contemporary practices within the new institution of international meditation centers in Thailand.

Gadjeva uses Kyoto as a case study to explore the innovative mechanisms being used to promote Japanese culture and cultural properties since the outbreak of COVID-19.

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

Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of its fastest growing economic sectors helping to generate income and employment for local people.