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Book SynopsisArising from foundations in green and eco-consumerism, ethical consumption is a multidisciplinary area of research. This shortform book presents an expert view of the empirical evidence on ethical consumption, incorporating perspectives from marketing, psychology and sociology.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Ethical Consumption: Definitions and Development 3. Segmentation Perspectives on Ethical Consumption 4. Psychological Perspectives on Ethical Consumption 5. Sociological Perspectives on Ethical Consumption 6. Problems in Ethical Consumption Research 7. Conclusions: Observations on State of the Art

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Book SynopsisThe pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation in tourism and there has been a surge in new, innovative digital initiatives to help tourism businesses. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the nature of tourism, events and practices in the digital context.The book looks at how technology has transformed tourism in destination branding, marketing, content marketing, sustainable tourism development and tourism events. It examines the impact of digital transformation on emotions, experiences, information technology tools and marketing techniques.The book will be a useful reference to those researching on tourism, culture, hospitality and marketing and as well as destination planners, managers of tourism destination marketing organizations, regulators, standards and certification bodies, local tourism board authorities and policy makers.Table of ContentsPart One Conceptual Discussions 1. Digital Innovation in Tourism Events: Theoretical Underpinnings and Conceptual Discussions Part Two Cases from Asia 2. Events at Nature-based Destinations of Bangladesh: Use of Information and Communication Technology in Marketing 3. Exploring the Light Show Landscaping at Traditional Festivals and Events in China 4. Goddess in Digital Space: A Study on Dynamics of Digitalization in Autumn Festival of India 5. Kaamatan Goes Virtual: Utilizing Social Media in Promoting Tourism Event 6. Impact of Online and Social Media Platforms in Organizing the Events: A Case Study on Coke Fest and Pakistan Super League 7. Technology Application in Tourism Events: Reflections on a Case Study of a Local Food Festival in Thailand 8. An Assessment on Strengthening the Attractiveness of Turkey’s Event and Festival Tourism with Innovative Technology Efforts 9. Technology Application in Tourism Events: Case of Africa Part Three Technology Application in Tourism Events: Case of Australia 10. The Ubiquitous Role of Mobile Technology Application in the Australian Open Part Four Cases from Europe 11. Technological Innovations in Event Sport Tourism: Case Study of the 2021 Sabre World Cup in Budapest in Hungary 12. Technology and Events: The Case of Note di Fuoco Festival in Calabria in South Italy 13. The Event ‘‘7 Wonders of Gastronomy’’ and the Digitalization of Communication in the Portuguese Context 14. Reimagining Tourism Events: Spain’s Preparation for the Return of a Healthier Breed of Tourists Part Five Cases from North America 15. Surviving the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Technology is Getting the Tourism Industry Back on its Feet in the USA Part Six Cases from South America 16. Technology in Tourist Events: A Study of Rock in Rio Brazil from the Perspective of its Stakeholders 17. The Sacred in Cyberspace: The Taper of Our Lady of Nazareth Religious Event and Technology Application in the (Re) Construction of Territorial and Touristic Identities in Belém do Pará, Brazil Part Seven Future Research Directions 18. COVID-19 Effects on Tourism Events, Technology Acceleration and Future Research Directions

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Book SynopsisBringing affect and emotion to the forefront of tourism studies, this book presents a new generation of scholars who consolidate emerging affective approaches and establish a route for scholarship that examines the roles of emotion and affect in tourism.Attuning to affect and emotion, this book steers the affective turn to encompass touring bodies and tourism places. Engaging the concept of affect as a constitutive element of social life often leaves academics grasping for terminology to describe something that is, by its very nature, beyond words. For this reason, as evident in the four interconnected sections of this volume, studying affect poses a significant and fruitful challenge to the status-quo of social scientific method and analysis. From African-American emotional labour while travelling, to visiting Banksy''s Dismaland park, to affective heritagescapes, self-love, and travelling mittens, and across socio-spatial theories of emotions, decolonial feminist theory, anTable of ContentsIntroduction: Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies Part 1: Emotion, Work and Power 1. Jim Crow journey stories: African American driving as emotional labor 2. Decolonising the ‘autonomy of affect’ in volunteer tourism encounters 3. Mexican women’s emotions to resist gender stereotypes in rural tourism work Part 2: Feeling Places 4. Presence in affective heritagescapes: connecting theory to practice 5. Beyond ‘a trip to the seaside’: exploring emotions and family tourism experiences 6. Dystopian dark tourism: affective experiences in Dismaland 7. Summers of war. Affective volunteer tourism to former war sites in Europe 8. Traveler sensoryscape experiences and the formation of destination identity Part 3: Symbolic Sentiments 9. Feeling opulent: adding an affective dimension to symbolic consumption of themes 10. Tourists’ savoring of positive emotions and place attachment formation: a conceptual paper 11. Self-love emotion as a novel type of love for tourism destinations Part 4: Affective Epistemologies 12. The ‘MeBox’ method and the emotional effects of chronic illness on travel 13. Attuning to the affective in literary tourism: Emotional states in Aberystwyth, Mon Amour. 14. Affective entanglements with travelling mittens Conclusion Affective Railway Journeys in an Age of Extremes

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Book SynopsisWine, Terroir and Utopia critically explores these three concepts from multi-disciplinary and intersecting perspectives, focusing on the ways in which they collide to make new worlds, new wines, new places and new peoples.Wine, terroir and utopia are all rooted in natural, spatial and temporal realities, yet all are unable to exist without purposeful human intervention. This edited volume highlights the theoretical and analytical lens of diverse scholars, who critically discuss a dazzling array of intersecting realities and imaginaries economic, political, cultural, social and geological and in doing this challenge many of our deeply-held responses to utopia. Drawing on an impressive range of international examples from South Africa to Bordeaux to New Zealand, the chapters adopt a range of theoretical and methodological approaches.This volume will be of great interest to upper level students, researchers and academics in the fields of Sociology, Geography, TTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of Contributors; AcknowledgementsMaking new worlds: The utopian potentials of wine and terroir; 1. The four pillars of utopian wine: Terroir, viticulture, degustation and cellars; 2. To wash away a British stain: Class, trans-imperialism and Australian wine imaginary; 3. Liberty and order: Wine and the South Australian project; 4. Burgundy’s climats and the utopian wine heritage landscape; 5. Inventing tradition and terroir: The case of Champagne in the late nineteenth century; 6. Terroir wines in Champagne: Between ideology and utopia; 7. Ecotopian mobilities: Terroir-driven tourism and migration in British Columbia, Canada; 8. Certified utopia: Ethical branding and the wine industry of South Africa; 9. The commercial basis of terroir utopias in Calabria; 10. Ideals for sustainability in the Australian wine industry: Authenticity and identity; 11. Utopia regained: Nature and the taste of terroir; 12. Utopia is just up the road and toward the past: Young Australian winemakers return to ancient methods; 13. Deep terroir as utopia: Explorations of place and country in southeastern Australia; 14. Plain-sight utopia: Boutique winemakers, urbane vineyards and terroir-torial mooringsIndex

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Book SynopsisGoing under the hood of retail strategy, this book provides in-depth coverage of how retailers can leverage the latest in data analytics and technology to improve profitability and customer value through pricing. Retail pricing is not about dollars, pounds or euros, but the value a customer associates with a product, which can and does change over time. To maximize revenues and profits, pricing must be dynamic, strategic, and in today's hyper-connected and -competitive world, scientific. Using technology to gather customer insights and create data-driven pricing approaches can also enhance the customer experience, improve vendor management, help monitor competitors, and ensure market efficiency including the much-needed reduction of waste in the food sector. This book uses case studies from around the globe to illustrate the evolution of retailing and offers takeaways with each chapter to enable retailers to manage the future of pricing. Retail and pricing managers, retail sector cTable of Contents1 Impact of Pricing. 2 Base Pricing. 3 Promotions. 4 Markdown. 5 Competitive Pricing. 6 Business Intelligence. 7 E-commerce Pricing. 8 Future of Pricing

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Book SynopsisOrganizational Development (OD) consultants often face dilemmas when they market their services because there is a gap between clientsâ expectation and the actual role of OD consultants. This book is about how to overcome that dilemma by finding effective marketing strategies for a different approach to consulting. Marketing Organization Development: A How-To Guide for OD Consultants focuses on the challenges faced by internal and external consultants in marketing and selling their services. By distinguishing between performance consulting and Organization Development (OD) consulting, this book demonstrates why marketing and selling OD consulting services are unique. This book meets not only unique OD consultantsâ needs by reflecting the philosophical background of OD and unique marketing challenges but the needs of Human Resource Development (HRD) managersâ need who are interested in promoting or selling their change interventions within their organizations.This comprehensive book: Reviews important terms and popular tools used in the marketing process and outlines the many roles a consultant must fill to obtain and keep the business (i.e., marketer, salesperson, brand manager, account management) .Describes the criteria for self-evaluation as an OD consultant. It examines how to identify your strengths and the competencies you need to develop based on OD competencies. Provides an introduction to actionable steps and resources for organization development, change management, and performance management consultants to evaluate unmet needs and opportunities through a niche market for consulting services. Covers how to communicate value to your target customers and how to brand your service. Describes various channels of OD marketing such as viral, word of mouth, and social media marketing. . Reviews selling tactics for l your consulting service and discusses the importance of having a defined sales process to which you adhere. Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Advance Organizer. Chapter 1:Unique Challenges in Marketing Change Management, Performance Consulting and Organization Development. Chapter 2: Marketing Landscape, Tools, and Definitions. Chapter 3: Evaluating Personal Strengths and Weaknesses. Chapter 4: Evaluating Unmet Needs and Opportunities. Chapter 5: Proposal Process. Chapter 6: Pricing OD Consulting Services. Chapter 7: Channels for Organization Development Marketing. Chapter 8: Communication Planning and Branding. Chapter 9: Personal Sales. Chapter 10: Executive-Level Communications. Chapter 11: How Measurement and Appraisal Can Be the Means to the End of Marketing Organization Development. Chapter 12: The Future of Marketing Organization Development Consulting.

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Book SynopsisAdventure tourism is an increasingly widespread phenomenon, appealing to an expanding proportion of the population who seek new destinations and new experiences. This timely, edited volume offers new theoretical perspectives of this emerging subset of Tourism. it uses philosophical and cutting edge empirically grounded research to challenge existing thinking and develop the conceptual framework underpinning definitions of adventure, interrogating the adventure tourism experience and further building upon recent advances in adventure education. The book brings together adventure literature from range of disciplines and applies it to focused study of Adventure Tourism. By doing so it significantly furthers understanding and moves forward this development of this area of Tourism.This significant volume is written by leading academics in the area, and will be valuable reading for all those interested in Adventure Tourism.Trade Review“Reflecting on all the chapters of the book, the reader is made aware of the breadth of the phenomena of adventure: from survival expeditions in wilderness, through soul-seeking journeys, to its commercialized forms that have gained popularity in post-modern times. The multidisciplinary Book Reviews / Annals of Tourism Research 47 (2014) 96–106 105 approach is what greatly augments the contents of this book as it is evident that authors have sought to find innovative methods in order to better understand the concept of adventure. However, the book undoubtedly invites readers to question their own practices and to create their own definition of adventure as a starting point for their explorations.”– Jelena M. Farkic, Department of Tourism, Novi Sad, Serbia, Published in Annals of Tourism ResearchTable of ContentsSection 1: The Meaning of Adventure 1. The Meaning of Adventure 2. The Adventure Enigma: An Analysis of Mountain Based Adventure Tourism in Britain 3. Capturing Meaning as well as Pleasure: A Happiness Study with Adventure Tourists 4. Pushing Life to the Edge: The Ability of Adventure to Take the Individual into the World Section 2: The Adventure Experience 5. Recovering the Forgotten Ground: Narratives of Slow Adventure 6. The Disneyization of Adventure 7. Profiling Adventure Tourists in Pretoria: A Comparative Analysis 8. How was it for you? Assessing the Quality of the Adventure Experience Section 3: Adventure Learning 9. The Demise of the Outdoor Apprenticeship 10. Structured Feedback in Outdoor Adventure Education 11. Learning through Adventure

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Book SynopsisConsumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines. The Routledge Handbook on Consumption gathers experts from around the world to provide a nuanced overview of the latest scholarship in this expanding field. At once ambitious and timely, the volume provides an ideal map for those looking to position their work, find new analytic insights and identify research gaps. With an intuitive thematic structure and resolutely international outlook, it engages with theory and methodology; markets and businesses; policies, politics and the state; and culture and everyday life. It will be essential reading for students and scholars across the social and economic sciences. Table of ContentsList of figures and tables List of contributors Preface 1 Consumption research revisited: Charting of the territory and introducing the handbookBente Halkier, Margit Keller, Monica Truninger and Terhi-Anna WilskaPART ITheoretical and methodological perspectives on consumption 2 Consumer culture theory Russell Belk3 Studying consumption through the lens of practice Alan Warde, Daniel Welch and Jessica Paddock4 Methods and methods’ debates within consumption research Bente Halkier5 Ruminations on the current state of consumer ethnography Robert V. Kozinets and Eric J. ArnouldPART IIConsumers and markets: Introduction 6 Marketing and consumer research: An uneasy relationship Matthias Bode and Søren Askegaard7 Consumers and brands: How consumers co-create Siwarit Pongsakornrungsilp and Jonathan E. Schroeder8 From production and consumption to prosumption: A personal journey and its larger context George Ritzer9 Collaborative consumption and sharing economies Stefan Wahlen and Mikko Laamanen10 Crises and consumption 1Sebastian KoosPART IIIGlobal challenges in consumption: Introduction 11 Consumption in the web of local and global relations of dominance and belonging Güliz Ger12 China – the emerging consumer power LiAnne Yu13 Consumption in Brazil – the field of new consumer studies and the phenomenon of the "new middle classes" Livia Barbosa and John Wilkinson14 Russia: Postsocialist consumer culture Olga Gurova15 Bridging North/South divides through consumer driven networks Laura T. RaynoldsPART IVPolitics and policies of consumption: Introduction 16 Political consumption – citizenship and consumerism Eivind Jacobsen17 Food labelling as a response to political consumption: Effects and contradictions Adrian Evans and Mara Miele18 Consumption policies within different theoretical frameworks Dale Southerton and David Evans19 Citizen-consumers: Consumer protection and empowerment Arne Dulsrud20 Practice change and interventions into consumers’ everyday lives Margit Keller and Triin Vihalemm21 Behaviorally informed consumer policy: Research and policy for "humans" Lucia A. Reisch and John B. ThøgersenPART VConsumption and social divisions: Introduction 22 Poverty, financing and social exclusion in consumption research Pernille Hohnen23 Poverty and food (in)security Monica Truninger and Cecilia Díaz-Méndez24 Materiality, migration and cultural diversity Marta Vilar Rosales25 Gender, sexuality and consumption Pauline Maclaran, Cele C. Otnes and Linda Tuncay Zayer26 Children as consumers David Buckingham and Vebjørg Tingstad27 Youth and generations in consumption Terhi-Anna Wilska28 Aging and consumption Carol Kelleher and Lisa PeñalozaPART VIContested consumption: Introduction 29 Sustainable consumption and changing practices Matt Watson30 Structural conditions for and against sustainable ways of consuming Bas van Vliet and Gert Spaargaren31 Retail sector facing the challenge of sustainable consumption Mikael Klintman32 Sexual embodiment and consumption Sue Scott33 Taste and embodied practice Melissa L. Caldwell34 Health, bodies and active leisure Roberta SassatelliPART VIICulture, media and consumption: Introduction 35 Consumption of culture and lifestyles Tally Katz-Gerro36 Consumption of leisure Jennifer Smith Maguire37 Fashion in consumer culture Laurie A. Meamber, Annamma Joy and Alladi Venkatesh38 Luxury consumption and luxury brands: Past, present, and futureAnnamma Joy, Russell Belk and Rishi Bhardwaj39 Social media consumer as digital avatar Alladi Venkatesh and Duygu Akdevelioglu40 Digital consumption Minna RuckensteinIndex

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Book SynopsisSince the first edition of this landmark textbook, online shopping has grown exponentially to the point that it now threatens to eclipse the high street. With online retail offering both advantages and challenges that are distinct from traditional commerce, this textbook provides new approaches to retailing and as suchhelps readers to take advantage ofnew digital technologies.This long-awaited new edition provides a thorough and substantial update to its solid core principle of digital retailing and its relationship with conventional retail methods. These principles are explained clearly and practically to provide students, entrepreneurs and researchers with a reliable guide to the implementation and operation of a successful online retailing business.Updates to this edition include: Search engine marketing and search engine optimization. New and updated case studies, including Tesco's virtual store, Ray-Ban's smart mirror, IKEA's mobile cataloguTable of Contents1. The world of e-retailing 2. The business of e-retailing in practice 3. Integration of e-retailing into an organisation 4. Understanding and communicating with the e-consumer 5. Information search on the web 6. E-store design navigability, interactivity and web atmospherics 7. E-service 8. Branding on the web 9. E-malls 10. E-retailing models 11. M-shopping 12. U-shopping 13. Multi-channel success and the future of e-retailing

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Book SynopsisMobility aims to take the pulse of this enormously expanded and energetic field. It explores the breadth of the disciplinary areas mobility studies now encompass, examining the diverse conceptual and methodological approaches wielded within the field, and explores the utility of mobility to illuminate a cornucopia of mobile lives: from the mass movements of individuals within global processes such as migration and tourism, to homelessness and war; from the entangled relations caught up in the movement of disease, people and aid across borders, to the inability of someone to cross over a road.The new edition explores the more sustained elaboration of mobility studies within a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and subject matters. It echoes the growing internationalization of mobility research, reflected in diverse case studies from the Global South, South Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and so far under-represented perspectives from China, Australasia,Trade Review"The revised edition to Mobility offers a clear and thorough introduction to the field of mobility studies. This indispensable overview takes readers on an expertly guided tour through the key concepts and crucial topics of study that have defined this vibrant field. Adey brings into conversation a wide range of historical and contemporary theorists from many disciplines and draws on a rich array of illustrative examples. Whether exploring the politics of mobility, urban infrastructures, borders and citizenship, mobile media or cultural meanings, he opens our eyes to the significance of differential mobility in shaping every aspect of life today."Professor Mimi Sheller, Department of Sociology, Director at Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, Drexel University, USA"Meticulously researched and updated to showcase the leading edge of contemporary mobilities scholarship, Mobility is truly a field-defining book. At a time when understanding the complexities of why and how things move or stay where they are is more vital than ever before, this book remains one of the most compelling travel guides to navigate this exciting, rapidly expanding field." Dr David Bissell, School of Sociology, The Australian National University, Australia"Mobility is a fantastic travel guide for anyone analyzing contemporary life. Peter Adey has a special talent for enabling a simultaneously philosophical and empirical appreciation of mobility that showcases how the study of im|mobilities can be richly productive of insight. As he embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of the movement of ‘little’ things like bacteria or CO2, and ‘big’ data, business and power, he connects tourism with offshoring, migration with securitization, elite mobilities with extraordinary rendition, everyday life, and the ideological and infrastructural moorings that differentially enable or constrain mobilities. An extremely useful book."Professor Monika Büscher, Director Centre for Mobilities Research, Associate Director for the Institute for Social Futures, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK"Peter Adey’s Mobility has been the go-to reference work for students and researchers in our field. In this expanded second edition he continues to track the growing reach and consolidation of mobilities scholarship around the globe. Adey achieves what most of us can only aspire to. He manages to map the wealth of research this broad theoretical perspective has inspired, while maintaining a sense of the dynamism that has enabled the field to move on and surprise us. Mobility is a must-read for everyone interested in contemporary thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences."Associate Professor Georgine Clarsen, School of History and Social Inquiry, The University of Wollongong, AustraliaTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction 2. Mobility Studies 3. Meaning 4. Politics 5. Practices 6. Mediations 7. Mobile Methodologies 8. Conclusion BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTourism Development and the Environment: Beyond Sustainability? challenges the sustainable tourism development paradigm that has come to dominate both theoretical and practical approaches to tourism development over the last two decades. It extends the sustainable tourism debate beyond the arguably managerialist 'blueprint' and destination-focused approach that continues to characterise even the most recent 'sustainability' agenda within tourism development. Reviewing the evolution of the sustainable tourism development concept, its contemporary manifestations in academic literature and policy developments and processes, the author compares its limitations to prevailing political-economic, socio-cultural and environmental contexts. He then proposes alternative approaches to tourism development which, nevertheless, retain environmental sustainability as a prerequisite of tourism development. This book also acts as an introduction to the Earthscan series Tourism, Environment and Development. About the series: 'Tourism, Environment and Development' aims to explore, within a variety of contexts, the developmental role of tourism as it relates explicitly to its environmental consequences. Each book will review critically and challenge 'traditional' perspectives on (sustainable) tourism development, exploring new approaches that reflect contemporary economic, socio-cultural and political contexts.Trade Review'Tourism Development and the Environment: Beyond Sustainability? is a timely, refreshing, and thought-provoking critique of sustainable tourism development. Challenging us to re-examine the very nature of sustainability, globalisation, and the tourism industry as a capitalist endeavour, it is essential reading [which is] sure to generate future debate.' David J. Telfer, Department of Tourism and Environment, Brock University, Canada 'Is sustainable tourism an idea 'whose time has now passed'? Or does uncritical allegiance to this notion blind us to the substantial economic benefits tourism brings to (differentially structured) global destinations? Sharpley says it does, and his case is cogently argued, empirically-based and compelling. The debate over international tourism has been raised to a new level.' David Harrison, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, University of the South Pacific, Fiji Islands 'well-crafted biij..recommended to all levels of undergraduate students as well as professionals.' J.R McDonald, Eastern Michigan University, Choice, 2010. 'This is a good book. It is clearly written... is critical of much coventional thinking, and contains succint summaries. As the first substantial critique of sustainability in the context of tourism, it merits serious attention. Furthermore, the book is good value for money and, as such, could be a good choice as a course text, as well as provocative reading for those who continue to espouse sustainable development uncritically.' Geoffery Wall, Tourism ReviewTable of ContentsSeries Preface Introduction 1. Tourism, Development and the Environment: An Introduction 2. Tourism and Development: From Economic Growth to Sustainability 3. Sustainable Tourism Development: A Critique 4. Tourism, Globalisation and 'Post-development' 5. Tourism Environments 6. Tourism as Capitalism 7. Destination Capitals: An Alternative Framework for Tourism Development References Index

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Book SynopsisWorldwide Destinations Casebook features 38 comprehensive case studies of international tourism destinations, 10 of them brand new and 28 updated. A companion to the core textbook Worldwide Destinations 5th edition, these cases contextulaise the learning and provide real life illustrations of the theories covered.This new edition covers subjects such as climate change, eco-tourism, destination regeneration and social impact. Case studies are drawn from all regions of the world and include: London Docklands regeneration A tourism strategy for Morocco 'New World' tourism - Outbound tourism from China Antarctica: tourism or conservation? Re-visioning tired destinations: Australia's gold coast Tourism in New York The Way of St. James: the pilgrimage as a cultural resource Ecotourism in the Ecuadorian Amazon The casebook brings a range of benefits to the classroom and by encouraging active learning allows students to gain valuable experience in: Problem solving and decision making Focusing on key issues within a clearly defined situation The development or honing of critical thinking skills Recognising that there is no one 'correct' answer to a problem Judging the relevance of different types of evidence and techniques Worldwide Destinations Casebook is the ultimate resource for contectualizing theory and is essential reading for any tourism student.Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 How to use this Book; Part 2 Cases Illustrating the Elements of the Geography of Travel and Tourism Mobilities Crisis and Risk Management in Tourism Understanding the ‘New Tourist’ Analysing the World Pattern of International Tourism Flows The Galápagos Islands The way of St James The Impact of Climate Change on Tourism The Significance of the El Niño Effect for Tourism Managing Transport at the Tourism Destination Low-Cost Carriers Space Tourism as Agent of Poverty Alleviation; Part 3 Cases Illustrating Regional Travel and Tourism Geography European Policy and Tourism London Docklands – Waterfront Regeneration and Tourism Development The New Forest The Isle of Man Bruges The Impact of Winter Sports Tourism in the Austrian and Swiss Alps Berlin Venice Tourism Issues in Yemen Managing Nile Cruise Tourism Campfire Vision 2010 Dubai Township Tourism Adventure Tourism in Nepal The Maldives Kangaroo Island The Revisioning of Tired Destinations Outbound Tourism from China Tourism in Macau Tourism in New York City Nunavut Tourism in Hawaii The Regeneration of Rio de Janeiro Ecotourism in the Ecuadorian Amazon Antarctica; Part 4 Useful Sources Sources to Support Work on the Case Studies;

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Book SynopsisThis important study examines the market trade of medieval England by providing a wide-ranging critique of the moral and legal imperatives that underpinned retail trade. James Davis shows how market-goers were influenced not only by practical and economic considerations of price, quality, supply and demand, but also by the moral and cultural environment within which such deals were conducted. This book draws on a broad range of cross-disciplinary evidence, from the literary works of William Langland and the sermons of medieval preachers, to state, civic and guild laws, Davis scrutinises everyday market behaviour through case studies of small and large towns, using the evidence of manor and borough courts. From these varied sources, Davis teases out the complex relationship between morality, law and practice and demonstrates that even the influence of contemporary Christian ideology was not necessarily incompatible with efficient and profitable everyday commerce.Trade Review'The task James Davis has set himself in this excellent book is to describe [the] regulations, morals, attitudes and prejudices [of the medieval market], and then to examine through case studies of individual markets precisely how they circumscribed the interaction of forces of supply and demand … What emerges from his exposition is a nuanced perspective on what people thought of markets … Davis has done us an important service by showing us another important way in which the long road to the modern economy can be traced back to a period earlier than most historians in the past would have thought likely.' Shami Ghosh, Reviews in History (history.ac.uk/reviews)'An important new book that makes a major contribution to what is now a mature field … Davis successfully bridges the gap between cultural history and economic history, showing how values and ideals were intertwined with the economy and vice versa. By bringing these two fields of enquiry together, Davis advances our understanding of both fields and illustrates the benefits of working across established scholarly boundaries.' Journal of British Studies'… [an] ambitious and learned book … This book will intrigue readers … a rich study which draws on an exceptionally broad range of primary sources …' Journal of Continuity and ChangeTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Images of market trade; 2. Regulation of the market; 3. The behaviour of market traders; 4. An evolving market morality?; Conclusion; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisIn the twentieth century, cumulative millions of readers received books by mail from clubs like the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Book Society or Bertelsmann Club. This Element offers an introduction to book clubs as a distribution channel and cultural phenomenon, and shows that book clubs and book commerce are linked inextricably. It argues that a global perspective is necessary to understand the cultural and economic impact of book clubs in the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. It also explores central reasons for book club membership, condensing them into four succinct categories: convenience, community, concession and, most importantly, curation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Book clubs: definition and basic structure; 3. Books for the masses: book clubs in the twentieth century; 4. Chances and challenges for book clubs today; 5. Conclusions and outlook.

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Book SynopsisWilliam Spratling was a U.S. educator whose artistic impact caused a successful silver jewelry industry to arise in Taxco, Mexico, in the 1940s. This book examines Spratling''s Mexican work and explores how his talent attracted the attention of the U.S. Interior Department. In 1945, he was invited to create a similar program for Alaska, where it was felt that the indigenous people needed to be encouraged for their own artistic expression and economic gain. Thirty never-before-seen Alaskan models, lost for over 50 years, have been found and now are preserved at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian. These and original designs for the project, made in 1949, are presented here along with Spratling's original 1945 report to the Arts and Crafts Board. Also featured are Spratling's designs that inspired a new company's formation to carry on his legacy at Taxco. Clearly, innovation in designs and inspiration for generations of new artists have risen from Spratling's work.

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Book SynopsisFashion is a business of smoke and mirrors, notorious for crushing the souls of most who dare to be part of the industry. Go on a global expedition with New York City-based fashion buyer, strategist, and consultant, Mercedes Gonzalez, as she learns that there is no glamour in fashion and that only cutthroat corporate espionage prevails. From politicking with blood diamond dealers and Russian kingpins to living in indigenous villages, she has relied on her street smarts and fear of her uncle in order to outwit the industry tyrants at their own game. The underdog becomes the overlord (at-large). You''ll want to grab a notebook for all the business (and life) tips this read has to offer. Advance warning, this book will convince you to become a proponent of child labor, an advocate of GMO, and a cynic of organic cotton.

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