Service Industries

This book examines the service sector growth of both India and Malaysia. India''s service sector has grown rapidly since the 1990s. Domestic demand...

The May 2014 National Climate Assessment indicates that the frequency and/or severity of many weather and climate extremes may increase with climat...

Leadership training is beneficial for the development of every human being, but few leadership models have focused on leadership qualities under se...

The potential of environmental resources as tourist resources and the impact of tourism on these resources are an open research area and, because o...

With the long-term goal of building Macau as a world tourism and leisure centre, the government department responsible for tourism development star...

This book presents the objectives, main steps and results of a European cooperation project, focusing on the importance of scientific competencies ...

Tourism is defined as the set of activities of persons traveling to and staying for the sake of rest, leisure, culture, health, etc., in places tha...

An ever-increasing number of tourists annually visit places which have been hit by disasters, or remembering onslaughts, genocides or places of mas...

The Chinese government incorporated tourism and urbanisation as a key component for economic and social development in the Five-Year National Plan....

International flights bound for the United States continue to be targets of terrorist activity, as demonstrated by the October 2010 discovery of ex...

The deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. personnel in Benghazi, Libya, on 11 September 2012, along with attacks on U.S. em...

The application of market segmentation techniques is long established in the tourism and hospitality literature. Various methods have been proposed...

This book has been written against the backdrop of the international financial crisis. The current figures illustrate the negative effects an inter...