Hospitality and service industries Books

This title offers a dynamic understanding of tourism, usually defined in terms of clearly circumscribed places and temporalities, to grasp its changing spatial patterns. This edited volume will be of great interest to upper-level students, academics and...

This book aims at renewing the attention on a niche field, Cultural Festivals, so important for valorizing cultural traditions and local heritage visibility as well as social well-being. Following the disruptive consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

This book provides theoretical and empirical perspectives on the urban impact of mega-events globally. It takes mega-events as an instance to analyse urban transformations and their effects on citizenship.

This book offers a critical account of the historical evolution of mountaineering and its relation to the phenomenon of tourism, providing an overview of recent developments linked to the diversification, commodification and commercialisation of...

This timely and insightful book critically reviews the synergistic relationship between books, literary culture, and the practices of tourism.

This insightful volume tracks the tourism development and associated social change in the small town of Göreme, in Turkey's Cappadocia region, within the last two decades.

While experiential staging is well documented in tourism studies, not enough has been written about the diverse types of experiences and expectations that visitors bring to the tourist space and how communities respond to, or indeed challenge, these...

This book introduces a new approach to the analysis and management of growth in small tourism markets for regional and rural locations. It recognizes from the outset that the vast bulk of the tourism industry's product is delivered by small business...

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This book introduces bioengineers and students who must generate and/or report scientific data to the ethical challenges they will face in preserving the integrity of their data. It provides the perspective of reaching ethical decisions via pathways that...

Why Parents Secretly Hate Children’s Birthday Parties, says it all. Finally, a book that spells out what a lot of parents think and feel, but never say. Hosting a children’s birthday party will make some parents cringe or can bring...

Innovative Marketing Communications for Events Management provides students and event managers with a complete insight into the strategic and innovative marketing of events of all scales and nature. The book builds a conceptual framework for the...

Cross-Cultural Behaviour in Tourism: Concepts and Analysis is important reading for those in the following areas of industry: * Tourism: illustrates the importance of cultural background in the tourist experience and how it is a major determinant in...

This landmark volume - based on a two year research program from a team of authors - examines the forms and functions of approximately fifty tourist shopping villages in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and the...

The recent surge in positive psychology has tremendous potential to augment current tourism study. This book examines the linkages between tourists, tourism and positive psychology and will interest those who study and practise tourism as well as...

Tourism is all about visuals. Visuals stimulate our imagination, create fantasy, and drive the audiences to take actions to realize these dreams through perceived reality. With media content presented through channels of television drama, reality shows,...

This book provides a clear understanding of the different business strategies and models across all markets of the fashion industry.Providing a holistic and practical approach to strategic fashion management and marketing, the book covers brand image,...

Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust, in the context of fashion and trade, were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution.　Luxury, fashion and social...

Disruptive and creative research methodologies proposed in this book are designed to dismantle neoliberal narratives deployed in tourism studies and wider social sciences. Progressing criticality in tourism studies, this volume showcases cutting-edge...

Where Asia Smiles offers an understanding of tourism and its cultural consequences that is neither a lament at the arrival of tourists nor an endorsement of the industry as a blanket resolution of social ills in "underdeveloped" places...

Human dignity has experienced limited attention in tourism studies. The interlinked dimensions of dignity in tourism urgently ask for broad avenues of future research, as tourism is both an information-intensive industry and an "experience good"...

This book provides a holistic and accessible approach to sustainable fashion management. It offers an interdisciplinary and practical outlook, combining theory with practical application from a management perspective and underpinned by the Sustainable...

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. The Action, called Air Transport and Regional Development (ATARD), aimed to promote a better...

Based on twelve months of in-depth ethnographic research in Japan with retailers, customers, wholesalers, writers and craftspeople, Selling the Kimono is a journey behind the scenes of a struggle to adapt to difficult economic conditions and declining...

Hospitality managers are at a critical inflection point. Digital technology advancements are ramping up guest expectations and introducing nontraditional competitors that are beginning to disrupt the whole industry. The hospitality managers whose...

Place is integral to tourism. In tourism, almost all issues can ultimately be traced back to human-place interactions and human-place relationships. Sense of place, also referred to as place attachment, topophilia, and community sentiment, has received...

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

New approaches to tourism study demonstrate a notable 'critical turn' - a shift in thought that emphasises interpretative and critical modes of tourism inquiry. The chapters in this volume reflect this emerging critical school of tourism studies and...

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...

This book examines comparative performance and best practice in National Tourism Organisations/ Administrations from extensive research carried out in 2003 and 2004. It compares qualitative and quantitative data in order to ascertain best performance...

Symbiosis in nature is the interaction between two distinct species looking to forge closer long-term relationships. There are three types of interactions; “Mutualism” (honey bees and flowers for example, where both species benefit),...

Since 1975, the Foundation of the first Community, here is a guide to know Damanhur, a Federation of Communities located in Valchiusella (Piedmont, Italy). Founded as a social experiment of a small group of dreamers led by Falco Tarassaco (Oberto...

1. Einleitung1.1 Zahlen und Tatsachen1.2 Ursachen für das Wachstum des Fernreisemarktes1.3 Reisemotivation und Typen von Dritte-Welt-Touristen2. Ferntourismus - Risiken und Chancen2.1 Wirtschaftliche Blickwinkel2.1.1 Arbeit und Einkommen2.1.2 Tourismus...

Even though the luxury market has grown faster than other markets, the question arises if luxury hotels are still of importance with reference to the social and economical aspects. This is questionable since nowadays more and more luxury hotels try to...

This book discusses the development of community ecotourism in south-eastern Kenya. The indigenous mountain rain forests of the Taita Hills are rich in biodiversity, but severely degraded. Alternative livelihoods are needed among the Taita people and...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Tourismus - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Hochschule München (Fachbereich Tourismus), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1.2 Zielsetzung der ArbeitDie heutigen Technologien und deren Fortschritt ermöglichen neue Formen der...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject Tourism - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0 (A), Stralsund University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: The questions this thesis is trying to answer are * Can a bonus card system help to make...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Fremdenverkehrsgeographie, Note: Gut, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Geographisches Institut, Aachen), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Tourismus, für...

Baby Shower Guest BookA Keepsake notebook where friends and family can write their wishes and words of advice for the parents to be.A perfect place where you can insert your scan photo, baby’s due date and the name you have for your baby bump i.e...

The Lake House Guest Book is a beautiful guest book to share comments and experiences. Perfect book for a guest house, vacation home, or holiday home. This book is 8.5 x 8.5 in size, it has a hardback cover, it contains 70 pages.

Baby shower guest book, perfect item for guest to leave heartfelt messages, and give advice, add photos, this book includes lined and blank pages. Beautiful keepsake for any mum to be and new parents to look back on and remember this special occasion...

Beautiful guest book, perfect addition to your cabin house, cottage, vacation home or holiday home, for guests to leave comments and share their thoughts. This book is 8.5 x 8.5 in size, it is a hardback book with 70 pages.

Embrace best practices to advance and help evolve your DevOps operating model in the right direction and overcome common challenges that financial services organizations face.Purchase of the print or kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format...

*Includes 100 color images.Japanese manga, anime, music, cinema, television dramas, and computer games have gained many international fans. Recognizing the global appeal of Japanese popular culture, since the early 2000s the Japanese government has...

This book is the 3rd volume in the Resilient Health Care series. Resilient health care is a product of both the policy and managerial efforts to organize, fund and improve services, and the clinical care which is delivered directly to patients. This...