Service Industries

Increasingly, the tourism industry is looking towards sustainability, responding to public demand and local environmental policy. This monograph ex...

In market structure, we tend to be equity focused, but one of the challenges is liquidity creation. This book examines liquidity creation and regul...

Risk Management for Events is a comprehensive and practical guide that supports academic and professional development programs to prepare individua...

Destination Marketing offers the reader an integrated and comprehensive overview of the key challenges and constraints facing destination marketing...

A global industry and an important tool for economic development, international tourism is facing an increasingly uncertain future. Global environm...

William D. Cohan's Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World is a chronicle of the most successful, iconic bank on Wall Street, fro...

This collection draws on the Mobilities approach to look afresh at notions of the sacred where they intersect with people, objects and other things...

Design Pedagogy explains why it is vital for design students that their education helps them construct a passport to enter the professional sphere....

This book provides emergent knowledge relating to physical, cyber, and human risk mitigation in a practical and readable approach for the corporate...

Investigating how people and places are connected into the creative economy, this volume takes a holistic view of the intersections between communi...

This accessible, up-to-date, comprehensive, and in-depth textbook introduces students and practitioners to the principles and practice of airport m...

This title was first published in 2001: Focusing on human resource management practices in the multinational multi-service providers, this text pre...

A must-have introductory text of unrivalled coverage and depth focusing on events planning and management, the fourth edition of Events Management ...

The International Dictionary of Hospitality Management is the must have companion for all those working or studying in the field of hospitality man...

Outlining the need for fresh perspectives on change in tourism, this book offers a theoretical overview and empirical examples of the potential syn...

This handbook provides students with an essential understanding of the skills and knowledge needed to work in the tourism, hospitality and events i...

It is vital for hospitality management students to understand key management concepts as part of the complex and intimate nature of the services in...

Marketing in Travel and Tourism aims to guide and support readers through the complexities of tourism marketing in the 21st Century. It sets out cl...

We live in a society that is bombarded by news of accidents, disasters and terrorist attacks. We are obsessed by the presence of death. It is commo...

Risk Management for Events is a comprehensive and practical guide that supports academic and professional development programs to prepare individua...

The growing complexity of todays interconnected systems has not only increased the need for improved information security, but also helped to move ...

Theming Asia: Culture, Nature and Heritage in a Transforming Environment presents a theoretical, thematic and empirical examination of theming, the...

This comprehensive volume was put together in response to the growing amount of research on tourism in Asia and an increasing number of authors fro...

Worldwide Destinations Casebook features 38 comprehensive case studies of international tourism destinations, 10 of them brand new and 28 updated. ...

Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation. In Europe, the regulation of major rivers, the digging of...

Events Management is a rapidly expanding discipline with growing student numbers however currently there are no specifically focused Research Metho...

This book is intended for electric utility managers, directors, and power system planners, regulators, and policy makers interested in the steps ne...

Exploring the connection between tourism and violence, this book draws on a range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultur...

Why do winning brands appear to be more creative and authentic than less successful ones? Despite the strong link between famous brands and the p...

How do we understand human-nature relationships in tourism, or determine the consequences of these relationships to be good, bad, right, wrong, fai...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE from director Ridley Scott, starring Lady Gaga and Adam DriverThe sensational true story of murder, madness, glam...

This book explores theoretical concepts of strategic promotion and place branding in cities. It outlines the issues associated with strategic manag...

Dark Tourism, as well as other terms such as Thanatourism and Grief Tourism, has been much discussed in the past two decades. This volume provides ...

In Design for Services, Anna Meroni and Daniela Sangiorgi articulate what Design is doing and can do for services, and how this connects to existin...

As the worlds greatest sporting event, the Olympic Games has always commanded intrigue, analysis and comment in equal measure. This book looks to c...