Retail and wholesale industries

An activity that originated in Western societies, backpacking has gained increasing popularity among Chinese millennials.

Develop a winning customer experience in the digital world Luxury consumers are changing they come from all over the world, they are young and they are digital natives.

The Invisible City explores urban spaces from the perspective of a traveller, writer, and creator of theatre to illuminate how cities offer travellers and residents theatrical visions while also remaining mostly invisible, beyond the limits of attention.

What role does the state have over national development within an increasingly globalized economy?

Cuba has experienced many social, economic, and political changes since Raul Castro retained presidency of the island nation in 2008.

This book analyzes the communication and writing strategies necessary to craft and maintain ongoing crowdfunding campaigns to support businesses, nonprofits, artists, and others.

Olympic Tourism is the first text to focus on the nature of Olympic tourism and the potential for the Olympic Games to generate tourism in the run up to and long after the hosting of a Games.

This new volume illustrates how one of the most rapidly evolving industries in the world-travel and tourism-has transcended its immediate economic concerns and has become a major signifier for cultural patterns and cross-cultural communications.

First published in 1964, this book examines the Tour of Britain.

The issue of local governance is high on the institutional agenda of many local and regional authorities throughout the OECD countries.

A comprehensive consolidation of data for the world, this book gives a short precis of each nation, each nation's history, its topography and a chronology of the development of geodetic surveying and coordinate systems for that specific nation.

What happens when tourists scream with fear, shout with anger and frustration, weep with joy and delight, or even faint in the face of revealed beauty?

Securing Urban Heritage considers the impact of securitization on access to urban heritage sites.

This timely volume brings together various issues in Muslim consumer cultures and provides a comprehensive account of Muslim tourism and tourist behaviour.

As the Olympic spectacle grows, broadcast coverage becomes bigger, more complex, and more sophisticated.

Following the surge of regional multiculturalism and indigenous political mobilization, how are indigenous Latin Americans governed today?

Destination marketing is more challenging than other goods and services.

The book offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to the topic of tourism development and its contribution to the fight against poverty.

'Governments and Tourism' is a unique text that studies the general and specific tourism policies from central to local government.

How do places manipulate our emotions?

This book is the first to focus on why and how foreign Western women engage in cross-border sexual and intimate relations as tourists travelling, or temporarily dwelling, in a Central American country.

At the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows humans with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in small communities of play, affect and respect for nature.

Air Transport and Regional Development Policies is one of three interconnected books related to a four-year European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action established in 2015.

Atmosphere is a term often used in everyday life to describe how a consumption space feels and has long been an important theme within marketing.

Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophical and religious contexts of much of Asia.

The inherent mobility of tourists and consequent relative ephemerality of contact between the visitor and the visited tourism phenomenon have specific characteristics that challenge the usual fieldwork practices of the social and physical sciences.

Ambitious projects to modernize European capital cities emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Analyze, plan and manage profitable channels to market with this economic framework, ensuring maximum leverage of channel partners at every stage of the go-to-market process, with this fully revised third edition of the global bestseller, Distribution Channels - an essential toolkit for strategizing new and existing routes to market.

Apparel Merchandising: The Line Starts Here analyzes the evolution and development of the merchandising function in branded apparel companies and retail private label apparel.

The book outlines the importance of Indian manufacturing sector and its growth under alternative policy regimes.

With the televised events of 1989, territories of Eastern and Central Europe that had been marked as impenetrable and inaccessible to the Western gaze exploded into visibility.

The environment is perhaps most misunderstood as a static place, somewhere "e;out there,"e; separated from the practices of our everyday lives.

Natural disasters, wars and conflicts, epidemics, and other major crises can devastate a tourism service or destination.

'New Frontiers in Marine Tourism' is the first book of this kind to address and analyse this burgeoning tourism sector comprehensively.

At a time when the world is plagued with pandemics, natural disasters, wars, and resulting hardships, nature-based tourism is on the decline, disrupting essential funding streams for protected areas where biodiversity and human vulnerability are highest and at greatest risk, especially in Africa and Latin America.

This book focuses on the complex issues of tourism development, governance and sustainability in the long-standing popular island destination, The Bahamas, where tourism remains one of the primary fiscal industries.

Museum and Gallery Studies: The Basics is an accessible guide for the student approaching Museum and Gallery Studies for the first time.

Emerging Trends in Smart Societies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives"e; captures the essence of the groundbreaking initiative heralded by the inaugural International Conference on Humanities for Smart Societies 2023 (HMSS 23).

Current Issues in Asian Tourism: Volume II draws together a collection of papers from Current Issues in Asian Tourism (CIAT).

This book is a pioneering investigation of the tourism practices in the world's other, cold water, islands.

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

Events can be synonymous with a particular place, helping shape and promote a location.

"e;John Dewey famously pointed out, 'We don't learn from experience.

With the rise of digital media, promotion remains a key element at each step of the merchandising process to communicate a clear message about a product, brand, or retailer to the end user.

A Cultural History of Shopping was a Library Journal Best in Reference selection for 2022.

Ephemeral stores, also known as pop-up stores, have existed since the beginning of trade between consumers.

Second homes have become an increasingly important component of both tourism and housing studies.

This book presents methodological approaches that can help explore the ways in which people develop emotional attachments to historic urban places.

The inside scoop on boosting sales through spot-on analytics Retailers collect a huge amount of data, but don't know what to do with it.