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This book describes the pottery trade activities of the residents of the community of San Bartolome de los Olleros in Piura, Peru.

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

Technology and technical change is sector- and industry-specific, embedded by locational institutions and organizations, and integrated in global networks.

This book is the first book that provides comprehensive economic analysis of cross-border outsourcing by Japanese manufacturing firms based on microdata.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the valuable tangible and intangible benefits of the development of heritage tourism.

This book brings together issues of social justice and the neglect of a sustainable orientation to the tourism workforce.

Tourism is a central part of regional development strategies in many localities around Europe, not just in traditional coastal or mountain resorts but also in areas without a strong track record with regard to visitor economy.

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

By 1760, with the alleviation of the French threat to the western frontier, colonial fur traders headed west to reap the bounty of trade with the local tribes.

This comprehensive textbook introduces students to all the core principles of marketing practice using an employability-focused approach.

In today's world of galloping change, adjustment and anticipation have become ever more vital for retail operations.

Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and environmental crises, was met with scepticism and often derision.

'This is a timely, challenging and fascinating book on a topic of central importance to the success or otherwise of our climate change policies.

Retail is going through difficult times and is suffering the consequences of both the economic crisis and the digitization of society.

Die Entwicklung professioneller Multimedia-Anwendungen bedarf der interaktiven Zusammenarbeit zwischen Auftraggeber und Entwicklerteam.

The retail sector is an integral part of a national economy.

This comprehensive volume was put together in response to the growing amount of research on tourism in Asia and an increasing number of authors from Asian countries.

The Basics Interior Design series comprises a collection of titles examining the application of interior design principles to different types of space.

This book offers students an accessible and applied introduction to microeconomics in tourism and hospitality through a comprehensive analysis of the market mechanism, demand and supply, firm behavior and strategy, and transaction and institution.

This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest bring.

This timely book delves into the intricate relationship between tourism and poverty with a specific focus on nature conservation areas, using case studies of island economies in a developed country, Japan, and a developing one, Vietnam.

The historic phenomenon of pilgrimage is experiencing a resurgence around the world.

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.

Consumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines.

This is the first textbook designed to teach statistics to students in aviation courses.

This timely and innovative book offers an introduction to a range of creative methods, providing both empirical and conceptual guidance.

In the late 1990s, there was a distinct rise in interest in the non-profit sector, and in retailing and consumption.

This book discusses the developments in trade theories, including new-new trade models that account for firm level trade flows, trade growth accounting using inverse gravity models (including distortions in gravity models), the impact of trade liberalization under the aegis of regional and multilateral liberalization efforts of economies using partial and general equilibrium analysis, methodologies of constructing ad valorem equivalents of non-tariff barriers, volatility spillover effects of financial and exchange rate markets.

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.

By raising questions and providing scenarios for success, this book embraces fashion brand development in current turbulent retail environments.

This book is the first to take an in-depth examination of events and well-being, adopting a much-needed critical approach to the study of events.

Historically, the integration of manufacturing methodologies into the office environment has proven to be problematic.

Neither the tourism industry nor the tourist has responded convincingly to calls for more responsibility in tourism.

This book explores opportunities for diversifying modern Kazakhstan's economy, which is still heavily dependent on its natural resources, as well as looking at economic opportunities for the whole Central Asian region arising from the Chinese government's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Once a luxury that only the elite could afford, fashion is now accessible to all.

Making Place, Making Self explores new understandings of place and place-making in late modernity, covering key themes of place and space, tourism and mobility, sexual difference and subjectivity.

Events Management is a rapidly expanding discipline with growing student numbers however currently there are no specifically focused Research Methods texts available to serve this growing cohort.

In 2000 United Nations adopted the Millennium Development Goals (UN MDGs), committing the member nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of specific targets with a deadline of 2015.

The Natura 2000 network of protected areas is the centrepiece of European Union nature policy, currently covering almost one-fifth of the EU's entire land territory plus large marine areas.

This book examines the unique characteristics of the Himalaya that mark them as a special region among other orographic regions of the world.

The high street is in crisis.

South-East Asia has developed rapidly as a tourist destination, but what are the effects of this growth upon the peoples of the region?

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

This book explores the growing phenomenon of music tourism - instances of people visiting places because of a connection with music.

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From its late nineteenth century origins, the concept of protected areas has increased in scope and complexity.

Fashion is a very popular subject among young people.