Service Industries

Marketing and Managing Tourism Destinations is a comprehensive and integrated introductory textbook covering destination management and marketing i...

This latest volume provides a framework, evidence, and recommendations on how to attain a dynamic and inclusive digital economy. Europe 4.0 is poss...

Full-colour road atlas of Wales, with extended coverage into England and including all the major routes into the country. The detailed road mapping...

Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below US$ 1.90 per day has fallen by close to 800 million. The report explores t...

Each year, people around the world spend well over one trillion dollars on travel and tourism, making this sector the world's largest, with employm...

Defence is the ultimate public good, and it thus falls to government to determine the appropriate amount of public revenue to commit to the defence...

There is not just one story of silk.In silk is science, history and mythology.In silk is the future. ...

The gradual retreat of polar sea ice in the Arctic region, combined with an expected increase in human activity - shipping traffic, oil and gas exp...

This book presents an ethnography of nature walks in a rural area of Parana state, southern Brazil. The event is organised by government agencies r...

The current global financial crisis, which began with the downturn of the U.S. sub-prime housing market in 2007, is testing the ability of the Inte...

The successful launches of SpaceShipOne raised the possibility of an emerging U.S. commercial space tourism industry that would make human space tr...

Heritage stones are those stones that have been used for many years, even centuries, to build the historic buildings and monuments of places around...

Takes readers systematically through the entire research process from the formulation of the aim to the presentation of the dissertation... a key s...

Written by European professors and focusing on the specificities of European sport, When Sport Meets Business analyses the growing commercialisatio...