Tourism category: 1805 books

Today -twenty years after the son of a shipping tycoon took on British Airways with two rented planes -Stelios's airline is a multi-billion pound company and a household name. This is the inside story of the spectacular rise of easyJet. Did the airline really buy its uniforms from a Benetton store?...

The import export business is not just for large corporations. In fact, small- to mid-size businesses account for 97 percent of U.S. exporters, so an individual armed with the right information can get far in on this enormous industry.

'Empowerment: HR strategies for service excellence' shows managers and students the importance of empowerment as part of human resource strategy. It provides a critical perspective of this established vital management technique, identifying factors that will lead to a win: win situation for all concerned. When...

Sport Governance provides a comprehensive guide to the practical application of governance principles to amateur and professional sport organisations operating at the community, state/provincial, national, and international levels. It presents a balanced view between accepted practice and what contemporary...

GET PAID FOR YOUR PAD An ever-growing number of travelers are searching for more convenient and low-cost accommodation alternatives, as opposed to staying at traditional hotels. As a result, online-based services like Airbnb, FlipKey, HomeAway, Roomorama, and VRBO are making it easy for you...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Touristik / Tourismus, Note: 2, DIPLOMA Fachhochschule Nordhessen; Zentrale (Touristik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Durch zunehmende Konkurrenz und Globalisierung, notwendige Kosteneinsparungen und Rationalisierungsmaßnahmen wird das Qualitätsmanagement...

The Routledge Handbook of Sport Management is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to theory and practice in sport management ever published. It provides students and scholars with a broad ranging survey of current thinking in contemporary sport management, exploring best practice in core functional...

Looks at the bigger picture, and the future trends that are going to affect the global business world over the next few years. The author analyses traditional themes such as technology and sustainability but also takes into consideration the effects of developments in other areas such as health, education and demographics

'Franchising in the Hospitality Industry' provides an overview of the issues, debates and challenges associated with business franchising. In two parts, this text firstly looks at the issues from both an academic and practitioner perspective. The second part looks more closely at service sector...

Are you looking to make some extra money with your rental?  If you are already or thinking about moving to paradise and wish to learn how to use Airbnb to help fund your dream lifestyle? This step-by-step guide is loaded with juicy information on how to successfully and quickly turn a...

From 17th-century Sweden to the present time, this remarkable volume provides a historical perspective on the manner in which hospitality has developed from a private right and obligation to a commercialized product. Examining the ways religion, belief, and notions of health and wellness have been...

Growing competition between countries and cities over attracting infrastructure, investment, tourists, capital and national and international status mean that today, a negative image is more harmful than ever. Whatever the cause of the negative image, places perceived as dangerous, frightening, or...

Innovative Marketing Communications for Events Management provides students and event managers with a complete insight into the strategic and innovative marketing of events of all scales and nature. The book builds a conceptual framework for the development, planning, implementation and evaluation...

The recent proliferation of events as a subject of study in its own right has signalled the emergence of a new field – event studies. However, whilst the management-inspired notion of planned events, which strives for conceptual slenderness, may indeed be useful for event managers, the moment we...