Industry

The vehicle for hire (VFH) market – broadly comprising taxis, limousines, and app-based transport – has faced multiple and significant changes over...

Domestic animals are an integral component of human leisure experience and can enhance the physical, social, and mental wellbeing of humans. The in...

This volume places Dickens at the centre of a dynamic and expanding Victorian print world and tells the story of his career against a background of...

Many countries have the capacity to construct nuclear weapons - even relatively poor and small ones, as the North Korean example shows us. So far, ...

This book aims at renewing the attention on a niche field, Cultural Festivals, so important for valorizing cultural traditions and local heritage v...

Over the last twenty years in Canada there has been an increasing trend toward retirement at age sixty-five or earlier. Despite this trend, relativ...

Over the past few years the hospitality industry has become a lot more sustainable than it used to be. However, the industry’s contribution to the ...

This book examines class relations through numerous empirical case studies, reports, and other sets of data before and during COVID-19. It is divid...

The telecommunications industry is the fastest growing sector of the US economy. This interdisciplinary study of technopolitical economics traces t...

Hospitality: An Introduction introduces the concept of hospitality to the readers and presents hospitality as a service industry. It demonstrates t...

Digital evolution, whether through Internet advances or the development of connected objects, has triggered a veritable societal revolution. Thanks...

Wine as commodity has received enormous academic attention, while wine as gift has largely eluded significant dedicated research and analysis. This...

Profit Planning is ideal for practicing managers, entrepreneurs, accountants and financial controllers engaged in the hospitality and tourism secto...

Complexity and Control in Team Sports is the first book to apply complex systems theory to ‘soccer-like’ team games (including basketball, handball...

For several decades, social enterprises have been pioneers in the conception and implementation of a pathbreaking social innovation: Fair Trade (FT...

The aim of politicians is to attract new investment to their city or region in order to develop infrastructure such as telecommunications, transpor...

Sea freight remains overwhelmingly the most common form of transport for goods globally. Grasp the core theories and understand the latest research...

Radio's Digital Dilemma is the first comprehensive analysis of the United States’ digital radio transition, chronicling the technological and polic...

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an extraordinary inflection point that caught airlines worldwide unprepared, causing CEOs to recalibrate their bus...

Organizations, Strategic Risk Management and Resilience: The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism aims to identify, analyse and underline the importance o...

By understanding tourist destinations through the lens of national identity, the tourist may develop a deeper appreciation of the destination. Furt...

Manchester Airport (EGCC) is a Category 10 international passenger airport located in Lancashire, UK, comprising three passenger terminals and a wo...

Absentee Ownership is an inquiry into the economic situation as it has taken shape in the twentieth century, particularly as exemplified in the cas...

First Published in 1906, this book discusses farming in Britain, as well as exploring the business interests and concerns of the farmer whilst deba...

This history of New York transit workers from the Great Depression to the monumental 1966 transit strike shows how, through collective action, the ...

The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the world’s greatest sporting ...

In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector i...

This title was a prize winner at the OIV (International Organisation of Vine and Wine) Awards 2023.The History of Rioja Wine offers an informative,...

This title was first published in 1976

From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she livedGoddess of Anarchy recounts the...

Hollywood Unions is a unique collection that tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized motion picture and television labor: IA...

Written by European professors and focusing on the specificities of European sport, When Sport Meets Business analyses the growing commercialisatio...

The tourist experience is a highly topical issue and one which is of critical importance in sustaining the future of the tourism industry. This tim...

Regulatory Governance and Risk Management will be the first book addressing the diffusion of risk-based governance in the coal mining industry from...

* Focuses on key areas highlighted by industry leaders as lacking in today’s spa managers/directors * Provides practical spa management guidance, ...

With over 30 years’ experience of risk management in banks, Mark Laycock provides a comprehensive but succinct non-technical overview of risk and i...

Nation Branding: Concepts, Issues, Practice provides a theoretical framework, alongside insightful examples from the practice of nation banding, in...

French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popul...

The railway lines of the West Highlands of Scotland are famous the world over for their illustrious history and unparalleled scenic beauty. Linking...

Recent developments like the rising trend in crude oil price, the international economic crisis, the civil revolts in Northern Africa and the Middl...

Profit Planning is ideal for practicing managers, entrepreneurs, accountants and financial controllers engaged in the hospitality and tourism secto...

In its heyday Spalding was a busy commercial port, with a shipping industry that affected a large majority of the local population. But today that ...