Service Industries

This book recognizes that while tourism research has undoubtedly penetrated and gone beyond a number of knowledge frontiers, frontiers are never st...

Tourism, travel and leisure (TTL) are highly diverse and fragmented industries. Alliances and partnerships can be used as a framework providing sma...

The book examines the extent to which Coser's (1956) 16 propositions can apply to tourism impact studies and, where possible, to enhance, deepen an...

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, a peer-review volume, delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospita...

AHL strives to address the needs of the populace willing to disseminate seminal ideas, concepts, and theories derived from scholarly inquiries. Pot...

The book aims to address topics such as tourism education and its development in the latter part of the twentieth century, taking tourism to be a b...

The volume advances theory on hospitality meanings from both conscious and unconscious processing of stimuli (sights, actions, consequences). It ex...

This volume addresses the transformative power of tourism social media and offers novel theoretical and methodological approaches to its academic i...

Drawing upon established academic theory, the study argues that the Big Four, as part of a globalizing transnational capital class, has dominated i...

Private equity surrounds us. Firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, and KKR are among the largest employers in America and hold assets that rival those of...

Strategic Management for Tourism, Hospitality and Events is the must-have text for students approaching this subject for the first time. It introdu...

Following on from the success of Garden Tourism, this book provides an update on the statistics and growth of the global phenomenon of garden visit...

Following on from the success of Garden Tourism this latest offering New Directions in Garden Tourism provides an update on the statistics and grow...

Quality-of-life research in tourism and hospitality has gained much momentum in the past two decades. This line of research covers three main areas...

Animals are among the most sought after tourist attractions and the impact on them is a matter of concern to an increasing number of people. Touris...

Around the world, there is mounting evidence that parks and protected areas contribute to a healthy civil society, thus increasing the economic imp...

Despite the significance of tourism to the economic, social and environmental structures of Latin America, little has been documented in the Englis...

Travellers today face many challenges from risk and safety issues. Focusing in particular on risk and safety issues faced by visitors to holy sites...

This comprehensive textbook has, at its core, the importance of linking strategic thinking with action in the management of tourism. It provides an...

Does tourism empower women working in and producing tourism? How are women using the transformations tourism brings to their advantage? How do wome...

Emotional intelligence is the capability to recognize, use and manage one's own emotions and those of others. The use of emotional information guid...

A number of recent books, magazines, and television programs have emerged that promise to take viewers inside the exciting world of professional ch...