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Do you want a holiday that bypasses too familiar haunts and gives you a greater depth of experience?

The study of tourism and indeed the tourism industry is changing constantly.

Strategic Luxury Management is a case-rich and practical overview of how luxury creates value and why some firms are more successful than others.

This book unravels the role of democracy after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and reflects important debates surrounding the security of Muslim communities in the years to come.

Noted experts offer invaluable insights into the glamorous world of luxury retail Luxury Retail Management is your gold-plated ticket to the glamorous world of luxury retail.

Tourism has become increasingly shaped by neoliberal policies, yet the consequences of this neoliberalisation are relatively under-explored.

This timely and insightful book critically reviews the synergistic relationship between books, literary culture, and the practices of tourism.

There is increasing public and academic interest in local and sustainable foods and food tourism.

The crucible of innovation in wildlife and habitat conservation is in southern Africa where it has co-evolved with decolonization, political transformation and the rise of development, ownership, management and livelihood debates.

A Mile of Make Believe examines the unique history of the Santa Claus parade in Canada.

eTourism Case Studies bridges the gap in contemporary literature by carefully examining marketing and management issues of many international companies that have successfully implemented eTourism solutions.

This timely and innovative book offers an inspirational and thought-provoking journey into the future world of hospitality by conceptualizing an innovative future where hotels transcend traditional boundaries and evolve into dynamic hubs of innovation, environmental stewardship, community engagement, and personal growth at the guest, employee, and local resident level.

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 edited collection will examine the way in which cities are imagined, experienced and shaped by those who reside within them, those who manage or govern them, and those who, as visitor, tourist or traveller, pass through them.

Destination management and resort development and planning are strong core areas in the final year of most undergraduate degrees and a popular area of study at postgraduate level.

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

This book explores the unfinished India-Pakistan Trade normalisation agenda (building upon the themes covered in the book "e;India-Pakistan Trade: Strengthening Economic Relations"e; published by Springer in 2014) and discusses the steps that must be undertaken in order to move the bilateral engagement forward.

In Fundamentals of Leisure Business Success, you'll sidestep the theoretical, overly academic jargon that often bogs down books dealing with leisure and recreation and discover many revolutionary, practical ways that these theories translate into the everyday realities of market share, employee management, and all-out business survival.

This book provides a compendium of cutting-edge knowledge for an efficacious retailing strategy, with lessons from the organized retailing sector in India.

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.

For at least half a century since the emergence of Country Parks and Forest Parks, countryside services have provided leisure, tourism, conservation, restoration and regeneration across Britain.

This ethnographic collection explores how neoliberalism has permeated the bodies, subjectivities, and gender of youth around the world as global sport industries have expanded their reach into marginal areas, luring young athletes with the dream of pursuing athletic careers in professional leagues of the Global North.

Many of our planet's support systems are in crisis.

Inclusion in Tourism provides examples of discrimination and marginalisation in tourism practices and avenues designed to recognise and overcome personal or institutional biases, setting a road map for researchers interested in establishing a more inclusive approach to tourism and tourism research.

Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Africa examines the multiple and diverse manifestations of cultural heritage-based tourism in Africa from a regional, social science, and sustainability perspective.

This comprehensive, revised edition offers how-to information for starting a small business in specialized retailing, from the mom and pop operation to a chain memorabilia store.

Stay up to date on international trends in convention tourism!

Touring Theatrical Productions: An International Guide is a practical and comprehensive overview of planning, staging and closing international touring productions.

The quickening pace of Iran's nuclear activities has produced an international sense of urgency.

Rural Europe is a highly developed tourism region, representing advanced tourism experience and supposed modern approaches to this industry.

This book provides a compendium of cutting-edge knowledge for an efficacious retailing strategy, with lessons from the organized retailing sector in India.

The Routledge Handbook of Health Tourism provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the philosophical, conceptual and managerial issues in the field of health tourism with contributions from more than 30 expert academics and practitioners from around the world.

The Aging Consumer: Perspectives from Psychology and Marketing, 2nd edition takes stock of what is known around age and consumer behavior, identifies gaps and open questions within the research, and outlines an agenda for future research.

In 1872 Yellowstone was established as a National Park.

This book brings together a diverse collection of case studies, perspectives, and research to explore how craft breweries have interacted with cities and neighborhoods in meaningful ways.

This book analyses case studies of heritage-rich cities that hosted mega-events to discuss emerging challenges, controversies, and accomplishments.

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

The event tourism business has become more and more essential to community development in countries around the world, helping to increase the appeal of specific destinations and generating huge economic benefits for the communities of the destinations, impacting local economies.

Events and festivals have an increasingly vital role in our leisure lifestyles.

Verico discusses the ASEAN economic integration from dual perspectives of time span (trade, investment and finance) and framework (bilateral, sub-regional, regional and regional plus).

Authenticity and Authentication of Heritage presents an assimilation of chapters that critically address some of the key emerging areas associated with authenticity.

This engaging book presents nine empirical chapters that explore topics such as lifestyle entrepreneurship, lifestyle mobility, luxury experiences, and tourism-related well-being.

This book provides a comprehensive, detailed and insight rich review of both the positive (capacity building, cultural conservation and economic opportunities) and negative (commodification, cultural change and possible loss of ownership and control) aspects of tourism development in indigenous communities.

This book will help small business owners and marketers feel comfortable using social media to promote their businesses, regardless of their past experiences or level of expertise.

The movement of humans across borders is increasing exponentially'some for benign reasons, others nefarious, including terrorism, human trafficking, and people smuggling.

This new volume, Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Tourism, now going into its 2nd edition, takes an in-depth look at how global geopolitical tensions and global threats affect the tourism industry and offers tools and strategies for meeting these challenges.

This book examines the textile and clothing Industry of India and its trade scenario from a global perspective.

Tourism marketing has typically been seen as exploitative and fuelling hedonistic consumerism.