Business & economics / Industries

The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy

by Sasha Issenberg

Now in paperback, the highly acclaimed exploration of sushi's surprising history, global business, and international allure

One generation ago, sushi's narrow reach ensured that sports fishermen who caught tuna...

Encyclopedia of Security Management

by John Fay

The Encyclopedia of Security Management is a valuable guide for all security professionals, and an essential resource for those who need a reference work to support their continuing education. In keeping with...

The Softwood Lumber War: "Politics, Economics, and the Long U.S.-Canadian Trade Dispute"

by Professor Daowei Zhang

As a forester interested in economics and policy, Daowei Zhang followed the softwood lumber dispute between the U.S. and Canada for nearly 20 years. Dubbed the 'Softwood Lumber War,' the conflict enveloped politicians...

Hotel Convention Sales, Services and Operations

by Pat Golden-Romero

This text provides a comprehensive look at the fast growing meetings and convention market segment. A useful "how- to" guide, it takes students through all aspects of selling and servicing a convention at a...

Water-Based Tourism, Sport, Leisure, and Recreation Experiences

by Gayle Jennings

Written by a team of international contributors, from Australia, Europe and the USA, the text uses international case studies and examples to illustrate and highlight discussion.

Contributors include: Paul Beedie,...

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

by Scott Rosenberg

Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior,

especially...

Critical Issues in Ecotourism

by James Higham

Critical Issues in Ecotourism seeks to shake the current stagnant literature on the subject of ecotourism out of a state of complacency. Drawing upon emerging insights provided by pre-eminent scholars in the...

Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business: Why So Much Music You Hear Sucks

by Hank Bordowitz

For disgruntled music fans wondering why music played on the radio is not only worse now than in the past but also not nearly as revelatory as it once was, this book presents a detailed discussion of how...

Wedding Planning and Management

by Maggie Daniels & Carrie Loveless

Wedding Planning and Management provides a comprehensive introduction to the planning and management of weddings. Looking through an event management lens, Maggie Daniels and Carrie Loveless thoroughly explore...

British Tourism

by Leonard J J Lickorish & Victor T.C. T. C. Middleton

Tourism at any point in time is in many ways a mirror of economic and social change. The changes in British society in the decades from the 1950s to the 21st century are reflected in the forms of tourism that...

Truth and Duty

by Mary Mapes

It was a great story. A true story. The kind of story any news producer would love to report, nail down and get on the air. And that's just what Mary Mapes and her producing and reporting team did in September,...

Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries

by Dennis Nickson

Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries takes an integrated look at HRM policies and practices in the tourism and hospitality industries. Utilising existing human resource management...

Festivals, Tourism and Social Change: Remaking Worlds

by David Picard & Mike Robinson

This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, festivals...

Events Design and Experience

by Graham Berridge

For the first time Events Design and Experience draws together the relationship between event design and the experience of consumers and participants. It explores and analyses the event experience of the individual...

Global Airlines

by Pat Hanlon

Global Airlines: Competition in a Transnational Industry presents an overview of the changing scene in air transport covering current issues such as security, no frills airlines, 'open skies' agreements, the...

Cultural Tourism in a Changing World: Politics, Participation and (Re)presentation

by Melanie K. Smith & Mike Robinson

Cultural Tourism in a Changing World provides an in-depth analysis of the key political and social debates in the field of cultural tourism, drawing on a range of international examples to exemplify the issues...

Sport and the Media

by Matthew Nicholson

Sport and the Media: managing the sport-media nexus is a unique text which combines an analysis of the sport media industry with practical sport media management skills. The book is designed to equip students...

Sport Governance

by Russell Hoye & Graham Cuskelly

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...

Sport Funding and Finance

by Bob Stewart

Sport Funding and Finance is written for students who wish to get both a broad and deep understanding of the commercial and financial structure of sport in various contexts. To this end, the book provides students...

Consumer Behaviour in Tourism

by John Swarbrooke & Susan Horner

Consumer Behaviour in Tourism takes a broad view of tourism and looks at consumer behaviour in a number of sectors including:

* tour operation

* tourist destinations

* hospitality

* visitor attractions

* retail...