Hospitality, Travel & Tourism

'Business Development in Licensed Retailing: a unit manager's guide' details the indispensable skills and techniques needed to manage units within licensed retail organisations in a flexible and entrepreneurial manner. This book: * Forms the basis of a...

An industry expert shows readers how to get the best return on investment from corporate events Corporate events and business entertaining are a major part of a company's communication, marketing and public relations strategy. They are used by...

Destination marketing relies on planning, organisation, and successful strategies and tactics. Tourism Planning and Destination Marketing provides an in-depth understanding of the tourism marketing environment, including destination branding,...

Recent years have seen an explosion in research on tourism volunteering. Volunteers are an essential part of tourism, whether they are volunteering in their local museum, at a sporting mega-event, as an airport ambassador, or travelling the global as a...

Sustainable consumption is a controversial concept: politically, socially and intellectually. Consumption drives our economies and defines our lives; making it sustainable is an enormous and essential challenge. The World Summit on Sustainable...

Special interest tourism is growing rapidly due to a discerning and heterogeneous travel market and the demand for more focused activity or interest-based tourism experiences. This book approaches the topic from the perspective of both supply and demand,...

Using a combination of theoretical discussion and real-world case studies, this book analyses the use of robotics, artificial intelligence and services automation (RAISA) within the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Divided into two sections,...

From the highly influential concept of 'staged authenticity' discussed by Dean MacCannell, to the general claim of longing for authenticity on behalf of all Western consumers, made by Joseph Pine and James Gilmore, it is obvious that the concept of...

This book presents a series of possible future scenarios in wildlife and animal tourism by combining critical thinking and imagination to stimulate reflection and ways forward. The future of wildlife tourism faces uncertainties that revolve around many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993982248Author Tim YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Y2 InnovationsPublisher Y2 InnovationsWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Food and Drink: the cultural context is the first text to provide a comprehensive and academically rigorous introduction to a range of key themes in the field of food, drink and culture. This edited text explores the complex relationships between food...

An engaging social history of foreign tourists' dreams, the African tourism industry's efforts to fulfill them, and how both sides affect each other. Since the nineteenth century, foreign tourists and resident tourism workers in Africa have mutually...

How did Accor, Cendant, Choice Hotels International, Marriott, and Hilton become the largest hotel chains in the worldand what strategies will they use to continue their growth?This first-of-its-kind textbook presents a balanced overview of the theory...

This innovative and original book provides valuable insights into the interorganisational dynamics of collaboration in tourism marketing. Specific attention is given to global airline alliances, international hotel consortia, and destination...

Sports Tourism: Participants, Policy and Providers is an unparalleled text that explains sports tourism as a social, economic and cultural phenomenon that stems from the unique interaction of activity, people and place. Unlike other texts, it establishes...

Eventscapes: Transforming Place, Space and Experiences directly examines the interrelation between events' simultaneous dependence on and transformation of the places in which they are held.This event-environment nexus is analysed through a variety of...

Following on from The Entertainment Industry: An Introduction, Entertainment Management takes the next step in the development of entertainment as a practice and as an academic subject. Aimed at higher level undergraduates, the book discusses best...

Investments in sport, events and tourism in cities and wider regions are part of nascent regeneration strategies linked to transitioning economic bases and place images. While it is important to consider physical regeneration, there is a range of...

Hotel Front Office is a comprehensive textbook specially designed to meet the needs of undergraduate degree/diploma students of hotel management and hospitality courses. It explores the core concepts of front office operations and management and uses...

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Producing and Consuming the Craft Beer Movement is an ethnographic analysis of the craft beer movement and its rapid development as an industry that articulated a different set of values: celebrating, quality, community, and good taste.This book will...

This book is the first to address the important interrelationship between second homes and climate change, which has become an increasingly relevant issue for many regions around the world. Second homes are often a key source of tourist visitation as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953909407Author Amy LaidlawFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Weight(grams) 148g

In recent years there has been a considerable interest in the cultural aspects of tourism such as the impacts of culture on tourism planning, development, management and marketing. However, the focus has been on material forms of culture such as arts,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757555046Author Jesse DizardFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

"Advances in Hospitality and Leisure", a peer-reviewed series, delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospitality, leisure, and tourism. It provides a platform to galvanize thoughts on contemporary...

This work explores the history of tourism in the American West and examines its effects on both the tourists and the places and people they visit. Scholars join government and National Park Service professionals to investigate the dilemmas that tourism...

The American West has always been seen as a land of opportunity, but tourism has transformed it into a land of opportunism. From Sun Valley to Santa Fe, towns all over the region have been turned over to outsiders - not just those who visit, but those...

"Advances in Culture, Tourism, and Hospitality Research" ("ACTHR") broadly seeks to increase understanding and description of human behavior, conscious and unconscious meaning, and implicit/explicit decision processes applied to...

Over the past hundred years, tourism has evolved into the world's biggest business, and few countries today question the common wisdom that the road to economic development is paved with tourist dollars. Yet questions should be raised, Patricia Goldstone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780894992360Author Adam StarchildFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Books for BusinessPublisher Books for BusinessWeight(grams) 299g

A guide to theory and practice in key areas of leisure management and planning in the leisure industries, for undergraduates, HND students, and those on post-experience and postgraduate courses.Book InformationISBN 9780333485330Author Ian HenryFormat...

What factors create a successful resort? How did the rise of lavish hotels and spas reflect the changing values of American society as the nineteenth century progressed? Historians have argued that resorts were created to meet the demands of a leisured...

In this fascinating book the contributors explore attitudes towards motivations for holidays, interactions with service providers as they affect the quality of the tourist experience, the nature of the holiday location and the events that occur there...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994324023Author Gary N HeilbronnFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint HpeditionsPublisher HpeditionsWeight(grams) 390g

Over 2,000 great pubs selected for good food, real ale, character and comfort. Countryside Inns, taverns, gastro-pubs and welcoming hostelries are included, carefully selected on merit with no charge for inclusion. The guide also features inspected and...

The definitive guide to a successful career as a professional personal chef The job of professional personal chef is one of the fastest growing careers in foodservice. People are choosing to become personal chefs in order to have a culinary career on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995492400Author Alan MachinFormat PaperbackPage Count 403Imprint Westwood StartPublisher Westwood Start

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013276675Author Claire LindsayFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g