Retail and wholesale industries

This book presents a series of studies analyzing critical factors that promote and constrain textile & clothing (T&C) production and trade in the Belt & Road (B&R) countries, and forces that drive the restructuring and transforming of global T&C supply chain and operations in the B&R context.

Using a range of interdisciplinary ideas, Major Reward and Recognition Events: Transformations and Critical Perspectives is an expert-led, informative volume exploring the global growth of major award shows and prize-giving ceremonies since the start of the twentieth century and outlining their key multimodal components, core functions and transformations over time.

How can owners and managers ensure that their considerable capital investments will return a competitive return on their investments?

In today's turbulent business environment, maintaining and optimizing retail strategies are of crucial importance.

Dr Pechlaner and Dr Innerhofer, the editors of Competence-Based Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism, argue that the industry operates within highly challenging and competitive environments.

Ethical and Responsible Tourism explains the methods and practices used to manage the environmental impact of tourism on local communities and destinations.

Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City fills a gap in existing research in terms of how immigration relates to urban tourism and investigates the new theoretical insights and challenges for empirical research using informative case studies drawn from several advanced economies in Europe, North America and Australia.

The act of surfing involves highly-skilled humans gliding, sliding, or otherwise riding waves of energy as they pass through water.

Der Handel ist in Bewegung: Es entstehen neue Betriebsformen, Vertikalisten konkurrieren mit klassischen Handelsorganisationen, elektronische und stationäre Kanäle werden in Mehrkanalsystemen zusammengeführt, Internationalisierungskonzepte stehen auf dem Prüfstand, das Angebot von Handelsmarken wird differenzierter und neue Technologien werden eingesetzt.

Over the past 20 years, the perception of tourism as an effective contributor to socio-economic development in the developing world has propagated, with many viewing tourism as a provider for poverty alleviation and towards other UN Millennium Development Goals.

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

Venture through the pages of How Consumers Pick a Hotel to learn the steps of selecting a target and using consumer behavior applications to segment the market to reach your target.

An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism is the first book to present, discuss and promote the use of a range of visual methods in tourism studies.

This book examines key contemporary marketing concepts, issues and challenges that affect destinations within a multidisciplinary global perspective.

The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change.

Im Grundlagenwerk Technischer Vertrieb werden Modelle und Instrumente für die Planung und Gestaltung aller Aufgabenbereiche des technischen Vertriebs systematisiert und praxisbezogen aufbereitet.

Ethical and Responsible Tourism explains the methods and practices used to manage the environmental impact of tourism on local communities and destinations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Electronic Commerce, WELCOM 2001, held in Heidelberg, Germany in November 2001.

The rise of hard discounters like Aldi and Lidl has been monumental.

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.

'Advances in Tourism Research' is a series of monographs and edited volumes that presents state-of-the-art research findings, written and edited by leading researchers working in the wider field of tourism studies.

This book presents the intricacies of retailing from both academic and practical points of view.

The study of LGBT aging is in its infancy.

"e;I absolutely love International Retailing.

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.

Should I advertise on TV?

If you work with older adults who are developmentally disabled and are seeking ways to incorporate exercise, arts activities, and other activities into your program, this is the book for you!

The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and Preservation explores automotive heritage, its place in society, and the ways we might preserve and conserve it.

Cultural tourism is an experiential tourism based on searching for and participating in new and deep cultural experiences.

Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives.

Positive Tourism in Africa provides a crucial counter-narrative to the prevailing colonial and reductionist perspective on Africa's tourism trajectory and future.

The retail industry is under significant pressure.

This book revisits the economic relationship that ties the UK andIreland to the United States in the aftermath of the greatest economic crisisof the past fifty years.

This book provides theoretical and empirical perspectives on the urban impact of mega-events globally.

Die Entwicklungs- und Vertriebsstrategien werden speziell für Ingenieure verständlich dargestellt.

This timely handbook critically examines the development and role of tourism in small Pacific Island states located across Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.

What factors contribute to tourism and recreation development?

Contemporary consumer society is increasingly saturated by digital technology, and the devices that deliver this are increasingly transforming consumption patterns.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of unbundling and, in particular, ownership unbundling policies from the perspective of international economic law.

The book is made distinctive by the presentation of practitioner insight allied with academic underpinning to create a powerful new framework of unusual breadth and depth.

The practical, user-friendly guide to creating a sustainable future for destinations in developing economiesCommunity Destination Management in Developing Economies is a user-friendly guide that provides a comprehensive view of the issues facing planners, policymakers, and destination managers who attempt to ensure a sustainable future

Involving customers in the development and production of new services becomes a powerful force across many creative industries.

Ethnic tourism has emerged as a means that is employed by many countries to facilitate economic and cultural development and to assist in the preservation of ethnic heritage.

Leasingrückkaufgeschäfte als Teil sogenannter Sale-and-buy-back-Geschäfte stellen in der Automobilbranche einen der wesentlichen Absatzkanäle dar.

Producing and Consuming the Craft Beer Movement is an ethnographic analysis of the craft beer movement and its rapid development as an industry that articulated a different set of values: celebrating, quality, community, and good taste.