Hospitality and service industries Books

Book SynopsisSustainable tourism should not be limited to environmental preservation; the sociocultural and economic sides should also be considered. There is a need for an integrated approach recognizing the resources, facilities, and infrastructures that are interrelated with the social, cultural, and natural environment. Community development becomes a reality only by merging the principles of sustainability with growth objectives. Even though investments in environmentally friendly infrastructure and related services are fundamental, there is a need to address gender inequalities, exploitation, and commercialization of culture. Further, there is a need to prioritize the link between tourism and poverty reduction. Inclusive Community Development Through Tourism and Hospitality Practices explores various viable strategies for the adoption of sustainable approaches that can eventually boost economic growth and poverty reduction all over the world. Covering topics such as international tourism, sustainable development, and tourism reinforcement, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for business leaders and managers, students and educators of higher education, community leaders, government officials, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

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Book SynopsisNew York, Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo. This familiar list of cities conjures up the image of high fashion. This book examines the powerful relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. The authors look at the significance of certain key sites in fashion's world order and at transformations in the connections between key cities. The status of fashion capital has now become a goal for urban boosters and planners, part of the wider promotion of the 'cultural economy' of major cities. In a rapidly changing global fashion system, new centres like Shanghai are making claims to join the ranks of Fashion's World Cities. In chapters ranging from Los Angeles to Moscow and Dakar to Mumbai, Fashion's World Cities explores the relationship between major metropolises and the production, consumption and mythologizing of fashion.Table of ContentsPart One: Fashion's World Cities: urban modernity and urban orders * From Paris to Shanghai: the changing geographies of fashion's world cities David Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London * Urbane Fashion: Fashionability and the city Elizabeth Wilson, University of the Arts, London Part Two: Fashion's World Cities: styles and representations * Paris, Capitale de la Mode: Representing the fashion city in the media Agnes Rocamora, London College of Fashion * Placing Tokyo on the Fashion Map: From catwalk to streetstyle Yuniya Kawamura, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York * Curating the Fashion City: New York style at the VA Sonnet Stanfill, Victoria and Albert Museum, London * Creating the Fashion City on Film 1953-1961 Pamela Church Gibson, London College of Fashion Part Three: Fashion's World Cities: refabricating the urban order * Milan, the city of pret porter: From Italian style to 'Made in Milan' Simona Segre Reinach, Fashion Studies, IULM University, Milan * How New York Stole Modern Fashion Norma Rantisi, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec * Mapping Moscow Fashion: Spaces and spectacles of consumption Olga Vainshtein, Russian State University for the Humanities * Shaping the Shopping City: Master plans and pipe dreams in London's West End 1945-1979 Bronwen Edwards Royal Holloway, University of London Part Four: Fashion's World Cities: Transnational Networks * La Mode Dakaroise: Elegance, transnationalism and an African fashion capital Hudita Nura Mustafa, Sarah Lawrence College (NY) * Far Out and Way In: London as fashion cosmopolis, 1945-1979 Sonia Ashmore, London College of Fashion * Fabrications of India: Transnational networks and the making of 'East/West' fashion Claire Dwyer, University College London * Sewing Machines and Dream Machines: Los Angeles and San Francisco as global fashion cities Susan Kaiser Leslie W. Rabine, University of California, Davis

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Book SynopsisClothing occupies a complex and important position in relation to human experience. Not just utilitarian, dress gives form to a society's ideas about the sacred and secular, about exclusion and inclusion, about age, beauty, sexuality and status. In Dressing the Elite, the author explores the multiple meanings that garments held in early modern England.Clothing was used to promote health and physical well-being, and to manage and structure, life transitions. It helped individuals create social identities and also to disguise them. Indeed, so culturally powerful was the manipulation of appearances that authorities sought its control. Laws regulated access to the dress styles of the elite, and through less formal strategies, techniques of disguise were kept as the perquisites of the powerful.Focusing on the elite, the author argues that clothing was not just a form of cultural expression but in turn contributed to societal formation. Clothes shaped the configurations of the body, affected spaces and interactions between people and altered the perceptions of the wearers and viewers. People put on and manipulated their garments, but in turn dress also exercised a reverse influence. Clothes made not just the man and the woman, but also the categories of gender itself. Topics covered include cross-dressing, sumptuary laws, mourning apparel and individual styles.Trade Review'This will be a very important publication. Susan Vincent uses techniques of historical and literary analysis to move beyond the conventional narratives of clothing history. It is a significant contribution and should be read by more than those with an existing interest in Early Modern England.'Evelyn Welch, University of SussexTable of ContentsContents Abbreviations Introduction 'When I am in Good Habitt' History and Dress The Meaning of Clothing and the Clothing of Meaning in Early Modern England . Chapter 1 Fashioning Appearances The Wardrobe - Men The Wardrobe - Women Reviewing the Wardrobe Chapter 2 Addressing the Body Outwardly for Defence - Inwardly for Cleanliness Bodily Transitions Clothing Grief Chapter 3 Clothes Make the Man His Garments Helpe Him to bee Counted Such a One Godly Apparel The Way of Wearing - Hat Honour To See and be Seen Increasing Visibility - Portraits and Livery Punishment and Shame A Very Good Fancy in Making Good Clothes Chapter 4 None Shall Wear Dress and the Law Economic Regulation Moral Regulation Social Regulation Deformity and Change - Discipline and Display Doomed to Failure? Chapter 5 Them and Us, He or She? ... p. 200 The Rogue ... p. 202 Being and Seeming ... p. 207 Actors and Courtiers ... p. 213 Wo to Men ... p. 219 Cross-Dressing ... p. 228 Conclusion From Riches to Rags ... p. 250 Bibliography ... p. 259

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Book SynopsisHospitality Accounting covers all the key areas of financial accounting, but is specifically written for non-accounting students. It focuses on the key areas of accounting required to run a hotel, in a simple and straightforward manner. This text includes plenty of cases, mini-cases and questions which help to emphasise the application of theory to practical business issues.Trade ReviewChpt 1 Theory and mechanics of double entry Chpt 2 Accounting for cash Chpt 3 Accounting for purchases Chpt 4 Accounting for sales Chpt 5 Accounting for other matters Chpt 6 Organisation of accounts Chpt 7 Maintaining a full set of books Chpt 8 Preparation of final accounts Chpt 9 Adjustment in nominal and personal accounts Chpt 10 Adjustments to final accounts Depreciation Chpt 11 Single entry Chpt 12 Accounts of non-profit making bodies Chpt 13 Accounting for partnerships Chpt 14 Accounting for limited companies Chpt 15 The cash flow statement Chpt 16 Basic food costing Chpt 17 Basic cost behaviour Chpt 18 Basic decision accounting.Table of Contents1. Theory and mechanics of double entry. 2. Accounting for cash. 3. Accounting for purchases. 4. Accounting for sales. 5. Accounting for other matters. 6. Organisation of accounts. 7. Maintaining a full set of books. 8. Preparation of final accounts. 9. Adjustment in nominal and personal accounts. 10. Adjustments to final accounts Depreciation. 11. Single entry. 12. Accounts of non-profit making bodies. 13. Accounting for partnerships. 14. Accounting for limited companies. 15. The cash flow statement. 16. Basic food costing. 17. Basic cost behaviour. 18. Basic decision accounting.

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Book Synopsis Ideas are ubiquitous. They are the fundamental building blocks for all aspects of life. Yet, efforts to use ideas as a basic unit of analysis in a shared framework are rare. We often find it difficult to look past the artificial boundaries that academic disciplines and specialist fields of knowledge construct. In this book, the authors address this substantial lacuna by proposing an intuitive theory of ideas that serves as a trans-disciplinary basis for studying innovation and creativity. The theory proposed shows how new ideas emerge from contexts that rely on mechanisms, which were originally built on older and more central ideas. It demonstrates how these mechanisms help instantiate different perspectives on the same idea in variegated manners. By applying their theory to a variety of bat and ball sports, the authors illustrate the role that primitive ideas have on sports innovation, and explore further avenues for employing the theory in a number of different situations. This original book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of the processes of innovation and creativity, developed within a complex framework of ideas.Table of ContentsPart I. Introducing Ideas.- 1. The Most Basic Unit.- Part II. Building the Theory.- 2. A Subjective Theory of Ideas.- 3. Mechanisms of the Theory of Ideas.- 4. Core Rules, Contracts and Commons.- Part III. Why We Play.- 5. The Ideas before Sports.- 6. The Ideas in Sports.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the rise, size and shape of the European fitness industry by using harmonised data as well as in-depth analyses of national surveys in fifteen European countries. Following an introduction to the socio-historical and conceptual aspects of fitness, the collection presents the scope of fitness as a business and participatory activity. Furthermore, both policy and governance issues as well as community and supply angles are considered. Drawing on this unique material, the book will appeal to students and scholars of sport business, sport economics, sport management, and social sport sciences, but also to administrators, policymakers and entrepreneurs in the international and national sport and health community.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis open access book is an outcome of several years of research, practice, and teaching experience of the authors on the challenges that underpin the successful switch to services for manufacturing firms. Ideal for a student as well as a practitioner, the book describes the industrial services ecosystem, the barriers and challenges, and a roadmap for building service excellence. Curated cases are used to describe the current approaches in practice to overcome the barriers. The book also provides several tools, each with a short introduction, that the authors have used successfully in projects to help overcome the servitization barriers. Many of these tools are from management, design thinking, or service design. The service excellence roadmap is based on the development methodology and helps current and future business leaders to create their own individual roadmaps.Table of Contents1. Understanding the Barriers That Slow Firms Shifting from Products to Services.- 2. Overcoming the Barriers to Service Excellence.- 3. Methods and Tools for Overcoming the Barriers to Servitization and Service Excellence.

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