Service Industries

Destination management and resort development and planning are strong core areas in the final year of most undergraduate degrees and a popular area...

In a sporting world dominated by media and money, an understanding of sport branding is an essential skill for any sport manager. Success means bei...

Social media is fundamentally changing the way travellers and tourists search, find, read and trust, as well as collaboratively produce information...

Tourism in Cuba - described by Fidel Castro as 'the evil we have to have' - has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of dev...

Taste is a core concept for the social sciences and an orienting notion in everyday practice. It is of equal relevance to academics and laypeople a...

This is a multidisciplinary contribution to the burgeoning literature on and around mega-events in general and sports mega-events in particular. Th...

Sport brands are a central element of modern sport business and a ubiquitous component of contemporary global culture. This groundbreaking book off...

In Reproductive Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Contemporary Economy, Alexander Styhre and Rebecka Arman illuminate issues that have given ri...

Drawing upon theories of landscape and performance, this work weaves together existing tourism literature with new scholarship to forge a geographi...

Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and eco...

A useful introduction to the critical study of tourism, this brief text applies semiotics and cultural theory to deal with some of our most iconic ...

This book is written as a practical guide to those interested in the pursuit of energy resilience at a local scale. Energy resilience is defined as...

This is the first book to provide the student of tourism, hospitality and events with all that they need to undertake statistical analysis using SP...

Mobile financial services (MFS) are of major interest and importance to both researchers and practitioners. The role played by nonbanking actors in...

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

With the rise of post-truth and fake news, a thorough examination of authenticity has never been so relevant. This book explores the geography of a...

Sexual spaces, normally inhabited by (mostly) female sex workers, are understood as masculine spaces, and positioned for and around male consumers....

Understanding the global hotel business is not possible without paying specific attention to hotel chain management and dynamics. Chains are big bu...

Investments in sport, events and tourism in cities and wider regions are part of nascent regeneration strategies linked to transitioning economic b...

What does heritage mean in the twenty-first century? Traditional ideas of heritage involve places where objects, landscapes, people and ideas are v...

This book provides a comprehensive and up to date comparative study of the management and resolution of conflicts between conservation and recreati...

Entertainment tourism has recently become more popular. Entertainment attractions encourage tourists to travel around the world to have fun and are...

In recent decades, the fast rise of emerging economies, like the BRICS nations, has propelled the growth of tourism worldwide. Meanwhile, a plethor...