Retail and wholesale industries

The apparel and textile industries have always been at the mercy of rapidly changing styles and fickle customers who want the latest designs while they are still in fashion.

Core values of society, health and wellbeing impact today on all aspects of our lives, and have also increasingly influenced patterns of tourism consumption and production.

This is the first scholarly collection to examine the social and cultural aspects on the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage (popularly known as 'ghost signs').

Morphological research studies the physical form of landscapes, including how landscape structures function and operate, the adaptability of forms, and how functions and forms change over time.

The apparel and textile industries have always been at the mercy of rapidly changing styles and fickle customers who want the latest designs while they are still in fashion.

Heritage, Culture and Society contains the papers presented at the 3rd International Hospitality and Tourism Conference (IHTC2016) & 2nd International Seminar on Tourism (ISOT 2016), Bandung, Indonesia, 10-12 October 2016).

Tourism is widely considered to be an important factor in socio-economic development, particularly in less developed countries.

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

This book examines the practice of community engagement in museums through the notion of care.

Stakeholders Management and Ecotourism looks at the thematic area of stakeholder management within the concept of ecotourism.

Royal events such as coronations and jubilees encompass a wide spectrum of planned events involving monarchs and their families that are strategically designed to reinforce the role of royalty within social and political structures.

A gorgeously illustrated companion to the fashion documentary of the same name, Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf Goodman is an unforgettable collection of anecdotes, from the hilarious to the poignant, in commemoration of the internationally renowned luxury specialty store's 111th anniversary.

Military Pilgrimage and Battlefield Tourism is the first volume to bring together a detailed analysis of professional military pilgrimage with other forms of commemorating military conflict.

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.

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the 'roving colonialism' of sport mega-events.

Assuming an international perspective, Chinese Tourist Outbound Behaviour presents an insightful exploration of the evolution of China's tourism market, explores Chinese tourists' behaviour, and considers how the country's tourism landscape will expand in the future.

Logistics and supply chains play a vital role in the overall success of retail management.

Second homes (variously summer houses, shacks, baches, cottages, dacha) are a popular cultural phenomenon in many countries and an emerging trend in others.

This book offers students an accessible and applied introduction to microeconomics in tourism and hospitality through a comprehensive analysis of the market mechanism, demand and supply, firm behavior and strategy, and transaction and institution.

This book presents theoretical and empirical perspectives on platform-mediated tourism, with a special focus on Airbnb.

This is a user-friendly textbook that covers qualitative, quantitative and social media methods, providing tourism, hospitality and events students and course leaders with an accessible guide for learning and teaching marketing research.

Certain types of tourism, such as volunteer tourism and student travel, have long been associated with global citizenship.

Access to quality services and community infrastructure are vital parts of supporting sustainable and resilient rural and small town places.

Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age explores online museums as sites of contemporary cultural diplomacy.

This title was a prize winner at the OIV (International Organisation of Vine and Wine) Awards 2023.

Mega-events have long been used by cities as a strategy to secure global recognition and attract future economic investment.

This book examines the challenges facing the development of tourism in the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

As potentially the largest retail market, China has attracted a great number of foreign retail operations.

At the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows humans with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in small communities of play, affect and respect for nature.

Although the scientific study of marketing is relatively new, certain aspects of it have been analyzed in considerable detail.

This book describes how, as a species our survival and capacity to flourish depends on realizing the intimate relationship of humans with nature through active, embodied participation with nature.

The study of pilgrimage often centres itself around miracles and spontaneous populist activities.

Brittany offers an excellent example of a French region that once attracted a certain cultivated elite of travel connoisseurs but in which more popular tourism developed relatively early in the twentieth century.

This book is the first to take an in-depth examination of the breadth and scope of exhibitions, trade fairs and other industrial events as a marketing tool or channel.

Front and Back Stage of Tourism Performance situates our travel imaginaries, those dream destinations on our travel bucket lists, as co-constructed by the tourist industry, state development policies, and community negotiations, and as framed by modernity's new global cultural economy.

How do hosts and guests welcome each other in responsible encounters?

This book explores and elaborates on the concept of "e;heritage tourism"e; and its implications for the tourism industry worldwide.

This textbook provides students with an essential introduction to the theoretical underpinnings and practicalities of managing the marketing of events.

This book examines the global scope of tourism-related grabbing of land and other natural resources.

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.

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

'New Frontiers in Marine Tourism' is the first book of this kind to address and analyse this burgeoning tourism sector comprehensively.

Since time immemorial Indian textiles, especially textiles from Bengal, were in great demand and exported to different parts of the world.

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This book provides an in-depth examination of the growing Asian tourism market and consumption in Arctic destinations.

This timely book is a comprehensive overview of customer service principles, theories, and practices.

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

Recent years have seen an explosion in research on tourism volunteering.

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.

Geographic space is a fundamental and essential construct of the physical reality within which we live, move, and construct our world.