Service Industries

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...