Retail and wholesale industries

Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route.

Technological advances and the drive to digitalize business processes in aviation, tourism, and hospitality have forced the industries to go along with the digital movement.

This edited volume examines global power-rivalry in and around South Asia through Bangladeshi lenses using imperfect and overlapping interest concentric-circles as a template.

Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive.

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

The Retail Value Chain analyses the changes in the retail industry such as internationalization and consolidation and looks at the strategic options open to companies.

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 is one of three inter-connected books related to a four-year European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action established in 2015.

This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of 'placemaking' in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years.

An important challenge facing tourism is the anticipation of the threat of crises precipitated by natural and people-made catastrophes, and being adequately prepared for them.

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

Being mobile in today's world is influenced by many aspects including transnational ties, increased ease of access to transport, growing accessibility to technology, knowledge and information and changing socio-cultural outlooks and values.

Exploring the connection between tourism and violence, this book draws on a range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultural geography, sociology, and tourism studies.

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

As researchers in emerging economies, scientists are often the first foreign visitors to stay in remote rural areas and, on occasion, form joint venture ecotourism and community tourism projects or poverty alleviation schemes between local agencies or NGOs, the local community, and their home institution or agency.

Reflects the importance of heritage to cities, and cities to the creation and marketing of heritage products, not least within tourism.

"e;Laurel Delaney writes in a tremendous spirit of service to entrepreneurial and small business leaders navigating the opportunities of globalization.

A global industry and an important tool for economic development, international tourism is facing an increasingly uncertain future.

Tourism and ecosystems services are interdependant and face unique challenges.

In the fast-moving consumer goods industry (FMCG), collaboration is often cited as the logical way for suppliers and retailers to create value.

Before contact with white people, the Northwest Coast natives had traded amongst themselves and with other indigenous people farther inland, but by the end of the 1780s, when Russian coasters had penetrated the Gulf of Alaska and British merchantmen were frequenting Nootka Sound, trade had become the dominant economic activity in the area.

This book explores the fascinating phenomenon of place event marketing in the Asia Pacific region.

This unique and thoughtful book considers the tourism specialization, economic growth, and tourism competitiveness of a very specific type of tourism: small islands practicing warm water island tourism.

Liminality is not typically associated with tourism, even though it can be viewed as an intrinsic element of the social/cultural experiences of tourism.

This Volume of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law explores emerging trends and key developments in international economic law.

This timely book provides a critical account of the role that animals play in the tourism industry, representing an extension of the sustainability imperative and environmental theory.

The development of the festival and event industry has seen large scale growth and extensive government support as a result of objectives to enhance and project the image of place and leverage positive sponsorship and regeneration opportunities.

As the tourist industry becomes increasingly important to communities around the world, the need to develop tourism in a sustainable manner has also become a primary concern.

An invaluable resource for real estate professionals and studentsConcise Encyclopedia of Real Estate Business Terms puts the terms used every day in the marketing and study of real estate at your fingertips.

Cultural attractions play an important role in tourism at all levels, and attract huge numbers of tourists interested in heritage and the arts.

This comprehensive volume seeks out ways in which those who are typically marginalized by, or excluded from, tourism can be brought into the industry in ways that directly benefit them.

Despite many negative expectations of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Russia delivered one of the best World Cups in living memory.

This book concentrates on major changes that are now taking place in the fields of technology, foreign direct investment (FDI), trade and development strategies, with a particular focus on India.

Policy and planning are particularly important in tourism due to their multi-faceted nature and the complexity of inter-organisational relations and collaboration.

International medical travel (IMT), people crossing national borders in the pursuit of healthcare, has become a growing phenomenon.

This volume explores a range of themes including impacts of climate change, resilience, sustainability, indigeneity, cultural genocide, disaster capitalism, preservation of biodiversity, and environmental degradation.

Medical and health tourism is a significant area of growth in the export of medical, health and tourism services.

At the time of its publication in 1930, The Fur Trade in Canada challenged and inspired scholars, historians, and economists.

This significant and timely book critically discusses the effects of emerging trends and shifting dynamics on the tourism and hospitality industry at local, regional, national, and international levels in a holistic manner.

Understand Thailand's important symbols, icons, and social practicesThailand's culture is unlike any other.

'Arts, Entertainment and Tourism' is a pioneering text that, by focusing on the consumer, investigates the relationship between these 3 industries and how this relationship can be developed to its best competitive advantage.

Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists.

This book introduces a new approach to the analysis and management of growth in small tourism markets for regional and rural locations.

Shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2022The world's retail sector has been devastated in recent years by two unstoppable forces: internet shopping and the Covid-19 lockdown.

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

Hospitality managers are at a critical inflection point.

Management and Technology in Knowledge, Service, Tourismand Hospitality contains papers covering a wide range of topics in the fields of knowledge and service management, web intelligence, tourism and hospitality.

With interest and participation in extreme and adventure sports growing year on year, the time is ripe for a thoughtful and analytical assessment of this phenomenon from a rigorous philosophical perspective.