Retail and wholesale industries

The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence exposes the spatial processes of racialising, gendering, and classifying populations through the encoded urban infrastructure - from highways cleaving neighbourhoods to laws and policies fortifying even more unbreachable boundaries.

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies, 2nd Edition, offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of the recent developments; conceptual, theoretical and empirical debates; and critical issues in this field of study.

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

This timely book critically explores the past, present, and future trends and needs of sport tourism development from a global perspective.

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.

The Caribbean now has one of the largest regional tourism industries in the world amongst developing countries.

This wide-ranging volume presents in-depth research into the effect of new information technologies on organizational structure, assesses their progress towards transformation and describes the changes they are making to long-established business process roles, cultures and working practices.

Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from Kenya - one of the most popular country destinations in Africa for sex tourism - this book gathers much-needed statistics and data, and then critically examines the features of tourism and the sex trade, contextualizing this in relation to tourism development.

The tourism industry has increasingly recognized and responded to growing environmental concerns.

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies.

Sustainable development is a highly topical issue and is of critical importance to tourism as the environment is of utmost importance for the continued development and prosperity of the industry.

The book develops a new approach to urban development in which leisure, pleasure or experiences are seen as key drivers.

Coping with Retail Giants critically analyzes the modern retail market and identifies how businesses gain the competitive edge over the major retailers that currently control the market.

The development of new technologies places new challenges to the interpretation and implementation of legislation in the information society.

Over the past decade, there have been an increasing number of publications that have analysed and critiqued the potential of tourism to be a mechanism for poverty reduction in less economically developed countries (LEDCs).

As the world faces many serious challenges informed, courageous and mindful leadership is needed for a better future.

Sell on Amazon and Make Them Do the Heavy Lifting Selling on Amazon has become one of the most popular ways to earn income online.

Garden Centre management has professionalised in recent years as garden centres have become more highly developed retail operations.

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

It is becoming ever clearer that while people tour cultures, cultures and objects themselves are in a constant state of migration.

This book provides a comprehensive study of the standard of 'full protection and security' (FPS) in international investment law.

The "e;Community Tourism Guide"e; will lead you to a new type of holiday.

The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of qualitative research in sport and exercise.

As tourism matures as an academic subject and the number of tourism higher education providers continues to expand world-wide, there is an increasing interest in its educational aspects.

In today's turbulent business environment, maintaining and optimizing retail strategies are of crucial importance.

This volume critically analyzes the convergence of technology, business practices, public policies, political ideologies, and societal values for improving business performance at the global-local paradigm.

Revised and updated, the fourth edition of The Economics of Tourism Destinations provides a guide to the economic aspects of tourism for students and practitioners to decipher the methods of measurement of supply, demand, trends and impacts as well as the role of tourism in development strategy for destinations and regional development.

With a special focus on social and cultural aspects of tourism and travel, this novel work brings out the latest in anthropology of tourism by laying the foundations of a new understanding of the intersection between tourism and social science.

This book describes, analyses, celebrates and interrogates the rise of rural tourism in the developed world over the last thirty years, while explaining its need to enter a new, second generation of development if it is to remain sustainable in all senses of that word.

This important text takes a strategic approach, examining in-depth studies of a variety of retailers and marrying theory with practice to provide comprehensive coverage for students at every level.

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.

The island of Bali has long been characterized in the West as the last "e;paradise"e; on earth, but there is far more to this small Indonesian province.

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

Cruises are the primary form of tourism in the Polar Regions and cruise ship tourism in both the Arctic and Antarctic is expanding rapidly.

The history of China's National Games reflects both the transformation of elite sport in China and wider Chinese society.

The tourist experience is multi-faceted and dynamic, as tourists engage with its formation and creation.

Ein solch umfassendes Werk wie die vorliegende Festschrift ist nicht zu rea- sieren ohne die Unterstützung zahlreicher Helfer.

This book explores the lessons learned from half a century of Caribbean cruise tourism; one of the most popular and profitable sectors of the tourism industry.

Tourism Geography develops a critical understanding of how different geographies of tourism are created and maintained.

This is a book about being a successful manager in the complex hospitality industry.

The impacts of tourism, an increasingly crucial area of study amongst researchers, are primarily investigated through economic, socio-cultural or environmental perspectives.

A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities - shopping.

This book brings together a collection of papers on international trade and international finance, instead of treating the two as disjoint fields of study.

The aim of this book are two-fold: (1) to evaluate the current progress of theoretical approaches to tourism marketing and (2) to show the ways to further develop the concept of tourism marketing for application within tourist destinations and individual businesses and evaluate its potential impact on performance improvement.

This volume provides original insight into the operational opportunities, challenges and constraints in managing Tourism Destination Marketing.