Retail and wholesale industries

This book invites readers on a captivating journey through the complexities of ecotourism around the world.

Sports Science has increasingly developed both as an area of research and as a university subject.

This book is the first to take an in-depth examination of marginalisation and events.

This book revisits the economic relationship that ties the UK andIreland to the United States in the aftermath of the greatest economic crisisof the past fifty years.

Since time immemorial Indian textiles, especially textiles from Bengal, were in great demand and exported to different parts of the world.

Managing Airports presents a comprehensive and cutting-edge insight into today's international airport industry.

This book traces the role of technology in shaping, curating, disseminating, and archiving knowledge and life in South Asia.

This anthology brings together the best and most interesting papers from the first ten years of The Journal of Architecture, published together for the first time in a single volume.

The Great Festival presents and analyzes two historical festivals - the ancient Dionysus Festival and the present Roskilde Festival.

This is a user-friendly textbook that covers qualitative, quantitative and social media methods, providing tourism, hospitality and events students and course leaders with an accessible guide for learning and teaching marketing research.

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

This book provides retail managers with a practical guide to using data.

This book analyzes new electricity pricing models that consider uncertainties in the power market due to the changing behavior of market players and the implementation of renewable distributed generation and responsive loads.

The West is one of the strongest and most enduring place images in the world and its myth is firmly rooted in popular culture - whether novels, film, television, music, clothing and even video games.

An organization's workforce is arguably the greatest asset of any organization, and tourism and hospitality is an extremely labor-intensive industry.

Tourism Reassessed: Blight or blessing?

What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces?

Concise and thoroughly detailed Managing Sport and Leisure Facilities is a clean operating guide to leisure management by contract, providing expert advice for both contractor and client.

Professional services firms - from the legal sector to accountancy, consulting and beyond - face increased disruption.

This edited book provides a broad collection of current critical reflections on heritage-making processes involving landscapes, positioning itself at the intersection of landscape and heritage studies.

Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts.

Food and wine events have gained popularity internationally.

The Target Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled the big box store to become the retail giant it is today.

Cultural policy intersects with political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics at all levels of society, placing high and often contradictory expectations on the capabilities and capacities of the media, the fine, performing, and folk arts, and cultural heritage.

This book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world.

This book explores the role of tourism in the expression of nationalism in Nepal.

This study, exploring a broad range of evocative Irish travel writing from 1850 to 1914, much of it highly entertaining and heavily laced with irony and humour, draws out interplays between tourism, travel literature and commodifications of culture.

This book addresses innovative and new aspects of branding and advertising communication, by drawing on a broad, interdisciplinary range of theories, methods and techniques- from body image, identity and mental imagery, to self-exposure and LCM4P - intersecting with branding and advertising constructs and practices.

Organizations, Strategic Risk Management and Resilience: The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism aims to identify, analyse and underline the importance of having a conceptual framework designed to develop and improve the risk management and resilience for organizations, particularly during times of crisis.

Whether physical or virtual, heritage brand or start-up, pop-up stores are everywhere: this book provides the 'why, what, and how' for entrepreneurs and established brands to capitalize on this exciting format.

Only virtuous humans are supposed to move in time to meet their happy destiny or karma.

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for everyone who wants to have both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of sanctions and boycotts in tourism and the economic and ethical complexities that policy makers, tourists, tourism destinations, and businesses face.

This introductory textbook provides a thorough guide to the management of food and beverage outlets, from their day-to-day running through to the wider concerns of the hospitality industry.

Tourism has increasingly become a vital element in the economic development of the Indian Ocean region.

This significant and timely volume focuses on the unique trajectory of tourism development in Japan, which has been characterized by an historical emphasis on promoting both domestic and international tourism to Japanese tourists, followed by the more recent policy of competing aggressively in the international incoming tourist market.

This new book, Restaurant Financial Management: A Practical Approach, provides valuable guidance on how to apply the concepts of accounting and finance to real-life restaurant business activities.

This book examines whether India is successfully integrating and adapting to the global strategic management system.

Tourism Marketing: In the Age of the Consumer offers a fresh and contemporary approach as an introductory textbook on tourism marketing.

Since the 1990s, tourism has become a major driver of economic activity and community development in Brazil.

This volume is the first to examine the commercial home from an international perspective, paying attention to the frequently occurring but often neglected forms of commercial accommodation including farmstays, historic houses, and self-catering accommodation.

Innovation and Best Practices in Hospitality and Tourism Research contains 71 accepted papers from the Hospitality and Tourism Conference (HTC 2015, Melaka, Malaysia, 2-3 November, 2015).

Stakeholders Management and Ecotourism looks at the thematic area of stakeholder management within the concept of ecotourism.

The "e;Serious Leisure Perspective"e; (SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us understand the complexities of modern leisure as both an activity and an experience.

Food is one of the most fundamental elements of culture and a significant marker of regional and ethnic identity.

America's Horror Stories: U.

Political economy, in its various guises and transfigurations, is a research philosophy that presents both social commentary and theoretical progress and is concerned with a number of different topics: politics, regulation and governance, production systems, social relations, inequality and development amongst many others.

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

This volume offers new insight into an important and largely under-examined area of marine leisure and tourism: scuba diving tourism.

The Routledge Handbook on Tourism in the Middle East and North Africa examines the importance of tourism as a historical, economic, social, environmental, religious and political force in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).