Service Industries

This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives with the aim of broadening understandings of poverty. It contains both empirical and conce...

This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. Guidebooks have been key...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles and challenges involved in tourism marketing in a national park context. It provide...

This is the first book to explore research on visiting friends and relatives (VFR). In many countries VFR is the largest single travel-related mark...

This is the first book to explore research on visiting friends and relatives (VFR). In many countries VFR is the largest single travel-related mark...

In this volume leading experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the fie...

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on tourism and water. It is the first book to thoroughly ...

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on tourism and water. It is the first book to thoroughly ...

The social media marketing bible for the financial industry The Socially Savvy Advisor: Compliant Social Media for the Financial Industry is the c...

This book encompasses the diversity and complexity of sex in tourism, incorporating the light, dark and shades of grey in between. It brings togeth...

This book explores the relationship between space tourism and the discourse in sustainability and futures research. It offers comprehensive informa...

This book offers a multidisciplinary, holistic appraisal of the implications of the UKs withdrawal from the European Union (EU) for tourism and rel...

This book offers a multidisciplinary, holistic appraisal of the implications of the UKs withdrawal from the European Union (EU) for tourism and rel...

This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the co...

This book examines and analyses the connections between gastronomy, tourism and the media. It argues that in the modern world, gastronomy is increa...

This is the first book to apply the concept of contents tourism in a global context and to establish an international and interdisciplinary framewo...

This is the first book of its kind to examine railway heritage in the context of tourism in a comprehensive, internationally relevant manner. It ex...

This book combines studies of inclusivity in tourism with a future lens and provides timely insights into current research and discussions on socia...

This book examines the emerging and shifting issues in the field of gay tourism, how these relate to significant societal and technological changes...

Thrive in a changing industry by putting your people first Advisory Leadership is a practical and highly executable guide for financial advisors an...

This book combines studies of inclusivity in tourism with a future lens and provides timely insights into current research and discussions on socia...

This book examines the emerging and shifting issues in the field of gay tourism, how these relate to significant societal and technological changes...

The first human resources text tailored to the hospitality industry.   Strategic Hospitality Human Resources Management, 1e is a groundbreaking new...

This book provides a systematic, country-by-country analysis of tourism policy, planning and organisation in the EU. Its main objective is to explo...

Culture is the entangling web of symbols, sounds, rituals, rites and practices by which we become persons and by which we can grow. Culture is ofte...

This book explores the relationship between space tourism and the discourse in sustainability and futures research. It offers comprehensive informa...

This book explains the emerging trends and developments of Chinese outbound travel, alongside the motivations, desires and expectations of Chinese ...

Trails and routes have been indispensable to travel and tourism over the centuries, helping to form the basis of mobility patterns of the past and ...

Trails and routes have been indispensable to travel and tourism over the centuries, helping to form the basis of mobility patterns of the past and ...

Tourism is a vital tool for political and economic change. Calls for boycotts by tourists of countries reflect the huge impact that tourist activit...

The field of social accounting and social responsibility of business has grown considerably in recent years in both the educational and professiona...

The book tells the story of the Lavazza Nuvola project, the headquarters of the Lavazza Group inaugurated in Turin in 2017, from a strategic commun...

This book presents up-to-date descriptions of Smart Services Innovations in industry, supported by new scientific approaches. It summarizes the out...

An unvarnished look at the economic and political choices that reshaped contemporary Chicagoarguably for the worse. The 1990s were a glorious time...

Tourist attractions constitute the metaphorical 'heart' of tourism. This book aims to both deconstruct and construct what tourist attractions are, ...

A visual overview of contemporary African fashion, Fashion Africa is a comprehensive guide compiled with an ethical perspective.Jacqueline Shaw pro...

This book, the first on social tourism in English, provides a comprehensive analysis of the various systems and practices in support of disadvantag...

This is the first book to explore the relationship between tourism and spices. It examines the various layers of connection between spices and tour...

This book presents a contemporary overview of our most ubiquitous cultural phenomena - festivals. It is able to do so by taking a powerful and uniq...

This volume explores the relationship between tourism and travel texts and contemporary society, and how each is shaped by the other. A multimodal ...

This book provides a systematic, country-by-country analysis of tourism policy, planning and organisation in the EU. Its main objective is to explo...

This book employs epistemological, methodological and discursive approaches to explore the practices of tourism stakeholders in Covid-19 affected d...

This book employs epistemological, methodological and discursive approaches to explore the practices of tourism stakeholders in Covid-19 affected d...

Guests directly account for over 50% of resource use in hotels and as much as 90% in self-catering accommodation. They are quite simply the most si...

Sustainability has come to the fore in the cosmetics and personal care industry. Rising ethical consumerism and the need for resource efficiency ar...

Focus on World Festivals: Contemporary case studies and perspectives provides the reader with a contemporary overview of festival activity from aro...