Service Industries

The 2008 financial crisis led the whole world to ask questions of the financial industry. Why are wages in the financial industry so high? Are bonu...

Since the middle of the last century tourism has demonstrated almost continual growth, with international tourist arrivals now recorded in excess o...

This book offers students an accessible and applied introduction to microeconomics in tourism and hospitality through a comprehensive analysis of t...

Social capital is broadly conceptualised as consisting of resources and network ties embedded in the social structures and relationships that facil...

Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management is a unique text, which links the three crucial areas of tourism: impacts, planning and management.Tourism...

Deriving from a special issue on China Watching (Journal of China Tourism Research), this book presents the readers with a collection of seven inde...

One of the leading texts in the field, The Economics of Recreation, Leisure and Tourism is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of economics ...

Visitor attractions represent a complex sector of the tourism industry and are the catalytic focus for the development of tourism infrastructure an...

Traditionally, resources on terrorism and counterterrorism tend to focus on the social, behavioral, and legal aspects of the subject, with minimal ...

International Cases on Tourism Destination Management and COVID-19 provides students, lecturers and practitioners with an essential real-life resou...

International Cases on Tourism Destination Management and COVID-19 provides students, lecturers and practitioners with an essential real-life resou...

According to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), international tourists engaging in cultural activities accounted for more than 500 million of ...

Hospitality Marketing is an introductory textbook which shows readers how to apply the principles of marketing within the hospitality industry.The ...

2022 Pest Control for Professional Turfgrass Managers contains the latest information on pesticides used to control turfgrass pests. This volume co...

Everything that we know about the world of finance is changing before us. Innovation is happening constantly, despite the protests of the tradition...

Providing a unique analysis of current multidisciplinary research on the complex relationships between tourism and the imaginaries of tourist desti...

Contemporary events management is a diverse and challenging field. This introductory textbook fully explores the multidisciplinary nature of events...

The remarkable success of the 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage is borne out by the fact that...

Marketing and Managing Tourism Destinations is a comprehensive and integrated introductory textbook covering destination management and marketing i...

What factors contribute to tourism and recreation development? How can we characterise stakeholder rationales and organisation modes to enhance tou...

This first full length treatment of the role of morality in tourism examines how the tourism encounter is also fundamentally a moral encounter. Dra...

What is the relationship between creativity, cultural heritage institutions and copyright? Who owns culture and cultural heritage? The digital age ...

Digital Out of Home Entertainment is rather an arcane description for one of the fastest growing technology-sectors. These forms of interactive tec...