Service Industries

Fashion knockoffs are everywhere. Even in the out-of-the-way markets of highland Guatemala, fake branded clothes offer a cheap, stylish alternative...

Fashion knockoffs are everywhere. Even in the out-of-the-way markets of highland Guatemala, fake branded clothes offer a cheap, stylish alternative...

Learn from some of the most respected women in insurance and risk management Women to Watch presents the advice, guidance, and lessons learned from...

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

Complete coverage of all aspects of dining room service, with real-life examples and updated information on technology in the industry. In The Pro...

'If Martin Scorsese's film The Wolf of Wall Street is about the finance industry's greediest adults, Kevin Roose's Young Money is a look at those w...

This book surveys current writing on the history of the modern hotel, focusing on three areas of vibrant and timely scholarly enquiry: the uniquene...

This book combines academic analysis and critical exploration to examine national narratives in the context of tourism and events around the world....

This print textbook is available for students to rent for their classes. The Pearson print rental program provides students with affordable access ...

This book examines science fictions theoretical and ontological backgrounds and how science fiction applies to the future of tourism. It recreates ...

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

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

This book offers insights into the demands made on staff in service encounters in tourism, events and hospitality roles. Using data from research c...

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

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing ...

This book investigates the way localities are shaped and negotiated through tourism, and explores the emerging success of local peer-produced hospi...

This volume seeks to expose and illustrate new approaches and thinking in qualitative methods that are being developed and implemented in tourism r...

This book is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about humour in all kinds of tourism settings. It discusses the many ways in which humour ca...

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 the complex interplay between industrial heritage and tourism. It serves to stimulate meaningful dialogue about the socioeconomi...

Roads and road tourism loom large in the Australian imagination as distance and mobility have shaped the nations history and culture, but roads are...

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