Retail and wholesale industries

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

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.

The Italian nation-state has been defined by practices of mobility.

Marketing Destinations and Venues for Conferences, Conventions and Business Events introduces students to key areas of marketing and promotion that are essential if destinations are to compete successfully in the rapidly expanding global business event sector.

The campstead is an American institution.

'Tourism in South and South East Asia' is a comprehensive and solid introduction to tourism in South and South East Asia with a specific appeal both to institutions in the region, and other institutions who wish to expose students to one of the most dynamic tourism regions in the world.

This volume unravels the politics surrounding behind China's hegemonic project of heritage tourism development in Lijiang.

This highly practical guide provides information that will help research students avoid needless mistakes.

This book evaluates how and why vertical disintegration has occurred in the global corporate hotel industry, as it undergoes a structural transformation.

This book bridges theoretical gaps that exist between the meta-concepts of memory, place and identity by positioning its lens on the emplaced practices of commemoration and the remembrance of war and conflict.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This book explores the ways in which the environmental factor of advertising can influence children's food choice and health status, and how it contributes to the significant public health issue of childhood obesity.

Pioneers in Marketing: A Collection of Biographical Essays discusses eight historically important marketing scholars whose careers collectively spanned over 100 years.

In the age of the Internet, how do you keep your customers coming back--again and again--when your competitors are always just one click away?

Understanding Tourism examines tourism in 1000 questions and answers.

New approaches to tourism study demonstrate a notable 'critical turn' - a shift in thought that emphasises interpretative and critical modes of tourism inquiry.

Britons Abroad (1968) takes the lid off nine 1960s package tours, mainly in Europe, revealing the kind of people taking part, what they got for their money and the adventures that befell them.

Based on extensive archival research, Beyond Market and Hierarchy reconstructs how Fan waged modern China's war of salts.

Going far beyond being just a mega sport event, the Olympic Games are, and have been in the past, important settings for tourism and cultural change.

The creative and science-driven design of the point of sale has become a crucial success factor for both retailers and service businesses.

This book evaluates the institutional environments of China and the United States, and the West more broadly, and how they affect their trading relationship, with specific emphasis on intellectual property theft and other allegations of unfair competition.

Using a wealth of international case studies and photos, Ecotourism: An Introduction provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the key foundations, concepts and issues related to Ecotourism, the fasted growing segment of the global tourism industry.

This book traces the particularities of music migration and tourism in different global settings, and provides current, even new perspectives for ethnomusicological research on globalizing musics in transit.

Keep the information you need on playthings and pop culture at your fingertips!

Museums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies.

The creative and science-driven design of the point of sale has become a crucial success factor for both retailers and service businesses.

SMART RETAIL IS THE HOW-TO RETAIL BIBLE.

This edited book includes new policy-relevant research on women's health issues in Africa.

There are over 1300 active volcanoes worldwide and many more dormant or extinct.

Global sports events are rarely far from the public eye.

Heritage stones are those stones that have been used for many years, even centuries, to build the historic buildings and monuments of places around the world.

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.

CRM was supposed to help businesses better understand their customers and increase efficiency.

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.

It has become more and more accepted that nature conservation is not possible without taking into account human activities.

The Geography of the Port of London (1957) deals with the mid-century functions of the port studied in relation to their physical setting and in the light of their historical development.

The User Perspective on Twenty-First Century Art Museums explains contemporary museums from the whole gamut of user experiences, whether users are preserving art, creating an exhibit, visiting, or part of institutions that use the architecture for branding.

In today's world, towns and cities dynamically develop over time and that's why urban regeneration is a widely experienced phenomenon.

This book shows stationary retail a way to reinvent itself after Corona, in order to be able to survive against the strong competition of online retail.

Although there has been an increasing interest in rural tourism in terms of research, training and teaching in recent years, its conceptualization and the relationships between concept and strategy are still poorly represented and not well understood.

Please note: this title will publish in January 2012.

True to the spirit of the all-American athlete and our society's seemingly endless pursuit of and passion for leisure activities is Sports & Recreation Fads.

Strategic Management for Tourism, Hospitality and Events is the must-have text for students approaching this subject for the first time.

This work studies tropical island resorts, the people who live and work there and the tourists who visit them.

This new textbook provides a complete study of human resource management from the perspective of management and operation in a hospitality environment.

First published in 1971, The Economics of the Distributive Trades is a comprehensive analysis of all sectors of the British retailing sector, written by the then-head of the Research Department of the John Lewis Partnership.

'Visitor Management' is an innovative collection of case studies taken from cultural World Heritage Sites.

Worldwide Destinations Casebook features 38 comprehensive case studies of international tourism destinations, 10 of them brand new and 28 updated.

The first academic textbook covering European retail fashion buying and merchandising.

The book provides a study of the investment environment for international enterprises in China and overseas investment by Chinese enterprises.