Retail and wholesale industries

As the event management field expands, there has been an emergence of a distinctive 'events' policy field of study and a need for more advanced texts that look at this subject with a multidisciplinary research and theoretical orientation.

It is now widely agreed that the climate is changing, global resources are diminishing and biodiversity is suffering.

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.

Google is the largest internet company in the world.

Buying for retail is a demanding and challenging job that requires a creative flair, a strong awareness of fashion trends, life trends as well as good interpersonal and team working skills.

In a world increasingly faced with, and divided by, regional and global crises, resilience has emerged as a key concept with significant relevance for tourism.

Best practices for implementing Lean techniques in retail and wholesale Essential reading for those who want to learn how Lean provides a competitive edge in today s fast-paced, multi-channel, and cost-conscious environment.

Without design, the "e;brand identity"e; is just a name, sometimes paired with a statement that enumerates the values of the company.

At a time of increasing city competition, national capitals are at the forefront of efforts to gain competitive advantage for themselves and their nation, to project a distinctive and positive image and to score well in global city league tables.

The concept of the green economy has now entered mainstream policy debates and been endorsed by a range of United Nations and other organizations.

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.

This volume includes the papers accepted for the First International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, which was held in Greenwich, UK, on September 4-6, 2000.

Many business sectors have been, and are being, forced to compete with new competitors-disrupters of some sort-who have found new ways to create and deliver new value for customers often through the use of technology that is coupled with a new underlying production or business model, and/or a broad array of partners, including, in some cases, customers themselves.

How will the travel and tourism industry respond to the terrorist attacks on America?

Explore the complex relationship between tourism and intimacy in this new book with a worldwide perspective!

A non-technical guide to leveraging retail analytics for personal and competitive advantage Style & Statistics is a real-world guide to analytics in retail.

Service Leadership offers students, researchers, and leaders a leadership model originating in the service economy - but which is gaining ground in all sectors and industries - explained by experts that were key actors in that origination at DHL International.

Vulnerability to sudden supply chain disruption is one of the major threats facing companies today.

In an era of accelerating change in the world economy, services are assuming greater importance for the economies of both developed and developing countries.

Das erste praxisbezogene Buch für den Produktmanager in der Pharma- und Medizinprodukteindustrie oder für den, der es noch werden will.

What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces?

This collective volume explores the ways merchants managed to connect different spaces all over the globe in the early modern period by organizing the movement of goods, capital, information and cultural objects between different commercial maritime systems in the Mediterranean and Atlantic basin.

Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, although in the railway age they began to suffer from competition from new fashions in leisure and tourism, especially the seaside holiday.

Gathering contributions from leading academics and international trade experts from South Asia, this book is dedicated to the late Dr.

Sacred Natural Sites are the world's oldest protected places.

Gathering contributions from leading academics and international trade experts from South Asia, this book is dedicated to the late Dr.

Over the last decade, while many scholars have maintained their interest in the classical debate concerning the impacts of tourism, some have attempted new conceptualisations, while others have converged towards critical narratives promoted by a number of social movements, and have become involved in subsequent discussions on 'overtourism' and 'tourismphobia'.

Originally published in 1983, Urban France examines the rapid growth in French cities between 1950-1980, and the serious consequences that have followed this rapid growth.

Retailing is an ever-changing facet in the fashion industry.

Providing clear guidance for anyone servicing internal or external customers, this book offers a framework for analyzing and managing quality using a comprehensive closed-loop approach.

Endorsed by the Chartered Banker Institute as core reading for the Personal and Private Banking module, Retail and Digital Banking looks at the changes that have occurred, including developments in onshore and offshore operations, call centres and the impact of technology and other critical factors in retail and digital banking.

This anthology is an attempt to make sense of conferences and trade fairs as phenomena in contemporary society.

Tourism: The Key Concepts offers a comprehensive collection of the most frequently used and studied concepts in the subject of tourism.

Designed for all students of hospitality and tourism management, the second edition of this best selling text gives a modern approach to front office operations and management using realistic scenarios set in the hotel environmentKey features of this essential text: user-friendly style of writing and accessible page layout enables students to use it as a reference book as well as a textbook updated in the light of recent developments such as global distribution systems and the internet greater focus on increasing yield and expansion of vital management aspects such as staffing and equipment additional extended, practical exercise material.

Tourism and the Lodging Sector is a pioneering book, the first text of its kind to examine the lodging sector from a tourism perspective.

Today, an increasing number of people from all over the world travel to Buenos Aires to dance tango.

In recent years, citizen science has emerged as a powerful new concept to enable the general public, students, and volunteers to become involved in scientific research.

This book provides comprehensive insight into the challenges faced by island tourism destinations and theoretical and practical paths for built in sustainability and resiliency.

This book focuses on strategies to achieve economic diversification in Asian landlocked countries.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of sanctions and boycotts in tourism and the economic and ethical complexities that policy makers, tourists, tourism destinations, and businesses face.

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

A nostalgic trip down the British high street, remembering once famous names such as Woolworths, Athena and C&A and also featuring current favorites, including the ubiquitous Tesco and Marks & Spencer which started life as a penny market stall to become a retail giant that has had to adapt to survive.

This book presents new directions both for tourism and cultural landscape studies in geography, crossing the traditional boundaries between the research of geographers and scholars of the tourism industry.

This second edition of Brand Meaning lays out new territory for the understanding of how brands both acquire and provide meaning.

This book explores, in breadth and depth, the role of sport in museums.

The Great Festival presents and analyzes two historical festivals - the ancient Dionysus Festival and the present Roskilde Festival.