Service Industries

The perception of airports by tourists and business travellers alike, has dramatically improved over the last 25 years. This is partly due to the m...

ACSMs Health/Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines, Fifth Edition, presents the current standards and guidelines to help health and fitness est...

The classic groundbreaking text for understanding organizational theory in the sport industry is back in an extensively revised new edition. With a...

Health Fitness Management, Third Edition, provides an in-depth picture of the challenging and rewarding role of the health and fitness club manager...

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that prevents victims from accessing their computers and the information they have stored. Typically, vi...

Latin America is a complex mosaic of nations, people and landscapes, with unique cultural, scenic and economic resources but with no more than 6% o...

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in public pressure on the accountability of business organizations. Financial crises and corporate...

Success in the fashion industry is not solely based on creativity and innovation; thought-out strategy and an astute application of management conc...

This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent hole in the wall ethnic ...

Destinations across the world are beginning to replace or supplement culture-led development strategies with creative development. This book critic...

The planning, design, management and marketing of experiences for tourism markets is a major challenge for tourism destinations and providers in a ...

Grape wine has been produced for at least 4,000 years, having been aged, stored and transported in every conceivable type of vessel. Its seductiven...

Applied Sport Business Analytics With HKPropel Access provides a practical explanation of the use of data analytic metrics in sport, exploring sele...

In a quickly growing and evolving society, organizations at all levels face ongoing challenges and complexities that require specific leadership sk...

Leisure Services Management, Third Edition With HKPropel Access, outlines the essential knowledge and skills that successful managers must learn, a...

Africa is at a critical moment in its economic development. With the recent decline of commodity prices, it has become apparent that many African e...

There have been a number of sporadic and disconnected initiatives to improve knowledge transfer between the tourism academia, government and indust...

In this tenth and celebratory volume in the Research in the Sociology of Sport series, ten recognized and influential sport scholars from around th...

This is the loose-leaf version of Sport Marketing, Fifth Edition, which offers students a less expensive, printed version of the text. Sport market...

If you love sports and are fascinated by business dealings in this trillion-dollar global industry, then this is the anthology youve been waiting f...

The authoritative text for current and future practitioners of human resources management in the sport and recreation industries is back in a revis...

Disasters experienced by the hospitality industry have steadily increased over the past few decades, and the industry has emerged as one of the mos...

Combining ideas of sustainable development, product development and branding with notions from the fields of design, space shaping and architecture...

The hospitality and tourism industry is one of the fastest growing industries worldwide, with a contribution of 9% to world GDP and 10% of job crea...

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, a peer-review journal, delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospit...

There are more opportunities than ever for employment in recreational sport, which means the need to prepare students with a solid foundation of t...

Esports have rapidly expanded from a pastime undertaken by casual players to one of the largest segments of the entertainment industry, in which hu...

The burgeoning global sport industry is a $500 billion business with no signs of slowing down. For the upper-undergraduate and graduate sport manag...

From a renowned group of international scholars, this new work examines how leading economic countries use sport business, particularly individual ...

The tourism industry is made up of a wide cluster of sectors having specific requirements related to planning for and recovery from tourism destina...

Tourism microentrepreneurship is defined as the process of launching a new, or adding value to an existing, enterprise with no more than five emplo...

International Case Studies in the Management of Disasters presents a diverse range of case studies on how disasters, both natural and manmade, are ...

Rapid growth in the tourism and hospitality industry highlights the importance of applied and pure research to address the theoretical and practica...

The Mindful Tourist presents the first comprehensive theoretical perspective on mindfulness in contemporary tourist experiences. This innovative ne...

Logistics are a critical element in the planning and realization of any large-scale event. Managing Global Sport Events: Logistics and Coordination...

Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home inSan Francisco, and plenty of...

As the popularity of the national parks grows, so do the challenges of visiting and managing them. This innovative book uses crowdsourcing - postin...

Thinking Heritage Through China explores major themes in international heritage through the lens of heritage practice in China.China is a dynamic p...

Securing the Digital World: A Comprehensive Guide to Multimedia Security is indispensable reading in today's digital age. With the outbreak of digi...

Gamechangers and Rainmakers is the compelling story of sports marketing and the creation of a trillion-dollar global business.Starting in the playi...

This book is a short book about public key cryptosystems, digital signature algorithms, and their basic cryptanalysis which are provided at a basic...

This book is a short book about public key cryptosystems, digital signature algorithms, and their basic cryptanalysis which are provided at a basic...

The rapid proliferation of smart devices has transformed our lives and industries, but it has also created a complex and evolving cyber threat land...

The rapid proliferation of smart devices has transformed our lives and industries, but it has also created a complex and evolving cyber threat land...

The rapid increase in IT infrastructure and presence in cyber space has given rise to enormous chances of security breach. Cybersecurity is one of ...

The objective of this book is to showcase recent solutions and discuss the opportunities that AI, blockchain, and even their combinations can prese...