Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industrie Books

Written by hotelier and businessman George Edward Stuart Whatley, this book offers guidance on bookkeeping best practices for hotels. With tips on topics from managing accounts receivable to preparing financial statements, this book offers a thorough and...

Pressure on national and local governments to rapidly develop their tourism potential to meet demand and produce benefits, makes it more essential than ever to plan carefully and consider the human and environmental impacts of tourism development. That...

In today's highly competitive and global economy, understanding tourist behavior is imperative to success. Tourist behavior has become a cornerstone of any marketing strategy and action. Choosing, buying and consuming tourism/travel products and services...

The book focuses on tourism, memorial sites of the Holocaust and the Pacific War and the management practices for the visitors that they attract.It provides an account of landscapes of violence as millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe, China,...

The Practical Guide to Understanding and Raising Hotel Profitability offers a comprehensive, easy-to-follow breakdown of how to understand profit and loss accounts for hotels. It offers practical advice on how to maximise the profits of this...

This timely and significant book explores the characteristics and complexities of Asian urban tourism, considering the extent to which Western paradigms can be transferred to Asian settings and the striking contrasts that exist within the region. In an...

At the end of the twentieth century, tourism is the world's largest single industry. Tourism, however, is not only an economic and social phenomenon, but can be 'read' in semiotic terms centered around dreams of alternatives to everyday life. The images,...

For author Kristine Hudson, walking away from the claustrophobic confines of a cubicle was simple. But when she jumped behind the wheel of her 1985 Vanagon, everything she knew flew out the crank-handle window.It's Not As Easy As I...

Get direct bookings for your Short Term Rental properties using powerful insights from one of the Top 20 Most Influential People in the Vacation Rental Industry - Keep reading!Are you a rental property owner who can seem to get direct booking without...

Imagine that every hotel guest you serve walked out the door and told just five people how amazing their experience was... To get it right, it's going to take so much more than good customer service. It'll be the 'little things' that count, those WOW...

Welcome to Waiters' World is a step-by-step guide to successfully waiting tables. Joël Hoachuck, who has been in the restaurant industry around the world for over 30 years, has written this guide in hopes of sharing his knowledge with the Waiters' of the...

Managing Sustainable Tourism tackles the tough issues of tourism such as negative environmental impact and cultural degradation, and provides answers that don't sacrifice positive economic growth. It offers practical plans for fostering harmonious...

Analyses of contemporary tourism planning and policymaking practice at local to global scales is lacking and there is an urgent need for research that informs theory and practice. Illustrated with a set of cohesive, theoretically-informed, international...

This book helps all those involved in international tourism develop the new skills, tools and investments required to protect irreplaceable global resources from the impacts of escalating tourism demand over the next 50 years. It documents how...

An insightful letter that delves into the history and economics of the bazaar. Joseph Nightingale argues that the bazaar is a vital institution that promotes entrepreneurship and social mobility.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally...

When you concentrate on the fundamentals, the restaurant business can be very lucrative. But most servers are making far less money than they should be, simply because they fail to understand what is important or don't bother to work at their craft.Don't...

This textbook provides students with an essential introduction to the theoretical underpinnings and practicalities of managing the marketing of events. In order to market events effectively, it is vital to consider marketing of events from the...

Ready to break free from the traditional 9-to-5 and embrace a life of adventure and location independence? "How to Become a Digital Nomad: Your Roadmap to Location Independence" is your comprehensive guide. This book takes you on a...

This unique and thoughtful book considers the tourism specialization, economic growth, and tourism competitiveness of a very specific type of tourism: small islands practicing warm water island tourism.This new book thoroughly examines the phenomenon of...

The role of the catering and convention service manager (CCSM) is diverse and must juggle event components. This book imparts authors' in-depth knowledge of what a CCSM does, what emotional and technical skills are required, how to relate to planners,...

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the...

This book explores the concept of authenticity in tourism through the analysis of six tourist sites in Guangdong Province and Macau, China.

This book offers international perspectives on the economic, social, geopolitical, and environmental implications of COVID-19 on tourism, an unprecedented situation for this sector.It considers the challenge of making the tourism industry more resilient...

Tourism and Heritage in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) uses an ethnographic lens to explore the dissonances associated with the commodification of Chornobyl's heritage.The book considers the role of the guides as experience brokers, focusing on the...

Recent years have seen an explosion in research on tourism volunteering. Volunteers are an essential part of tourism, whether they are volunteering in their local museum, at a sporting mega-event, as an airport ambassador, or travelling the global as a...

Branded a "cultural Chernobyl" and the "tragic kingdom," the Euro Disney Resort has been on its own thrill ride since opening in 1992. The much publicized version of the Magic Kingdom gave Europeans alcohol-free "mocktails," surly employees, even colors...

In light of the tumultuous global changes which have dramatically affected the hospitality business, the third edition of Developing Hospitality Properties and Facilities provides insight into the reality of developing hospitality properties in...

The Practical Guide to Achieving Customer Satisfaction in Events and Hotels is the fourth title in the Routledge Series The Practical Guide to Events and Hotel Management and presents expert-led insight of customer service best practice within...

Food is routinely given attention in tourism research as a motivator of travel. Regardless of whether tourists travel with a primary motivation for experiencing local food, eating is required during their trip. This book encompasses an interdisciplinary...

Hospitality Security: Managing Security in Today's Hotel, Nightlife, Entertainment, and Tourism Environment, Second Edition provides experience-based, proven methods for preventing and resolving the challenges faced by today's hospitality security staff...

This book examines the unique characteristics of the Himalaya that mark them as a special region among other orographic regions of the world. The Himalayan range is an important global asset for ecological, climatic, cultural, spiritual, and economic...

With case studies from the USA, Canada, Chile, and other countries in Latin America, American Chinese Restaurants examines the lived experiences of what it is like to work in a Chinese restaurant.The book provides ethnographic insights on small family...

This book provides a comprehensive, detailed and insight rich review of both the positive (capacity building, cultural conservation and economic opportunities) and negative (commodification, cultural change and possible loss of ownership and control)...

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...

Lausanne, the Swiss city IOC (International Olympic Committee) President Juan Antonio Samaranch honored with the title "Olympic capital" in 1994, is now the administrative capital of world sport. The past century has presented Olympism with many...

Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management is a unique text, which links the three crucial areas of tourism: impacts, planning and management.Tourism impacts are multifaceted and are therefore difficult to plan for and manage. This title looks at all the...

This is the story of the radical intervention carried out by the Thatcher administration in response to 1986-89 Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry into brewing. It describes the creation of big brewers, the official investigations into what many...

Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Tourism - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,5, Oxford Brookes University, language: English, abstract: Green marketing and branding is not a widely researched topic in a destination context. Therefore, this...

This study seeks to gain insight into environmental management im­plemented by micro and small tourism enterprises and explore levels of awareness and interest among owner-managers of micro and small tourism enterprises toward schemes aiming for the...

Heidelberg City, Germany. Travel Guide, Tourism. Surrounded by forest, Germany’s oldest and most famous university town is renowned for its baroque Altstadt, beautiful riverside setting and evocative half-ruined hilltop castle, which draw 11.9...

Travel to Sardinia Island. History and Information, Holiday, Tourism. Sardinia lies in central Mediterranean Sea, between Corsica and the Tunisian coasts. Its provinces are Cagliari (chief city), Olbia-Tempio, Sassari, Nuoro, Tortolì-Lanusei...

St. Croix Island Travel Guide, USVI. Vacation, Holiday, Honeymoon. if you are a diver you have likely heard of it! St. Croix is well known for wonderful dive opportunities. If you aren't a diver, you can take introductory classes while on vacation...

Helsinki Travel Guide, Finland. A modern city featuring some of the most distinctive architecture in the world, both old and new, Helsinki is one of the cultural hot spots of Northern Europe. An idealholiday destination for both for lovers of the arts...

Scotland History Early History, The People, Culture and Tradition. Scotland is one of four countries that make up the United Kingdom. (The other three are England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.) Scotland covers the northern part of the island of Great...