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Destination management and resort development and planning are strong core areas in the final year of most undergraduate degrees and a popular area...

In a sporting world dominated by media and money, an understanding of sport branding is an essential skill for any sport manager. Success means bei...

Social media is fundamentally changing the way travellers and tourists search, find, read and trust, as well as collaboratively produce information...

Tourism in Cuba - described by Fidel Castro as 'the evil we have to have' - has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of dev...

Taste is a core concept for the social sciences and an orienting notion in everyday practice. It is of equal relevance to academics and laypeople a...

This is a multidisciplinary contribution to the burgeoning literature on and around mega-events in general and sports mega-events in particular. Th...

Sport brands are a central element of modern sport business and a ubiquitous component of contemporary global culture. This groundbreaking book off...

In Reproductive Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Contemporary Economy, Alexander Styhre and Rebecka Arman illuminate issues that have given ri...

Drawing upon theories of landscape and performance, this work weaves together existing tourism literature with new scholarship to forge a geographi...

Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and eco...

A useful introduction to the critical study of tourism, this brief text applies semiotics and cultural theory to deal with some of our most iconic ...

This book is written as a practical guide to those interested in the pursuit of energy resilience at a local scale. Energy resilience is defined as...

This is the first book to provide the student of tourism, hospitality and events with all that they need to undertake statistical analysis using SP...

Mobile financial services (MFS) are of major interest and importance to both researchers and practitioners. The role played by nonbanking actors in...

This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away...

With the rise of post-truth and fake news, a thorough examination of authenticity has never been so relevant. This book explores the geography of a...

Sexual spaces, normally inhabited by (mostly) female sex workers, are understood as masculine spaces, and positioned for and around male consumers....

Understanding the global hotel business is not possible without paying specific attention to hotel chain management and dynamics. Chains are big bu...

Investments in sport, events and tourism in cities and wider regions are part of nascent regeneration strategies linked to transitioning economic b...

What does heritage mean in the twenty-first century? Traditional ideas of heritage involve places where objects, landscapes, people and ideas are v...

This book provides a comprehensive and up to date comparative study of the management and resolution of conflicts between conservation and recreati...

Entertainment tourism has recently become more popular. Entertainment attractions encourage tourists to travel around the world to have fun and are...

In recent decades, the fast rise of emerging economies, like the BRICS nations, has propelled the growth of tourism worldwide. Meanwhile, a plethor...

Hospitality Marketing is an introductory textbook which shows readers how to apply the principles of marketing within the hospitality industry.The ...

After the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989, Fidel Castro announced the beginning of aSpecial Period for Cuba. During this time, the Cuban govern...

Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to t...

Today, death is being reconceptualised around the world as heritage, replete with material markers and intangible performances. These heritages of ...

Within leisure studies there is a growing awareness and intensifying conscience about the potential environmental threat posed by the continued and...

This book provides a holistic and accessible approach to sustainable fashion management. It offers an interdisciplinary and practical outlook, comb...

This volume serves to expand theory-driven understandings of active sport tourism by showcasing five empirical studies examining a variety of activ...

This book provides a holistic and accessible approach to sustainable fashion management. It offers an interdisciplinary and practical outlook, comb...

Not all World Heritage Sites have people living within or close by their boundaries, but many do. The designation of World Heritage status brings a...

During the past twenty years, the field of nonprofit management has grown significantly in terms of the number of nonprofit organizations, number o...

2018 Pest Control for Professional Turfgrass Managers contains the latest information on pesticides used to control turfgrass pests. This volume co...

In recent years, resilience theory has come to occupy the core of our understanding and management of the adaptive capacity of people and places in...

Management of Sports Development is the first book to offer a holistic approach to a field which has been growing in importance for some years. Alt...

This book provides a comprehensive overview and examination of the international aspect of Events Management and the many challenges and complicati...

Global sports events are rarely far from the public eye. Such mega-events are about much more than the sporting competitions themselves. They entai...

This book looks at service innovation, service industries, and innovation performance in services.It seeks a broader explanation and understanding ...

This book delves into neighborhood branding by looking at the City of Orlando and the identities that set each neighborhood apart from others.Orlan...

This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecur...

Fashion buying and merchandising has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. Aspects such as the advent of new technologies and the changing n...

The new fifth edition of Ecotourism focuses on an array of economic, social and ecological inconsistencies that continue to plague ecotourism in th...

The scientific and technological advances that influence the protection of cultural heritage are developing at an ever-increasing pace. Systems to ...

There is no area of business that is more dramatically affected by the explosion of web-based services delivered to computers, PDAs and mobile phon...

The book focuses on the processes of urban restructuring, power relations and the political economy of touristic authenticity.Through an in-depth a...

This edition stresses some critical reflectons regarding security policies before and during Sport Events in our contemporary era of generalized in...