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Tourism Policy-Making in the Context of Contested Wicked Problems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Tourism Policy-Making in the Context of Contested Wicked Problems

This volume offers insights into pathways towards tourism sustainability, analysing current problem-solving capabilities and competences of governments to deal with specific tourism policy issues (or wicked problems) such as the climate emergency, tourism mobility, indigenous disadvantages, the COVID-19 pandemic, or the P2P economy.

Tourism Destination Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 122

Tourism Destination Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-18
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  • Publisher: MDPI

This book collected studies focused on the management of tourist destinations. Destinations are complex and adaptive systems, where the different elements that make them up have to be oriented towards achieving a common objective that improves the competitiveness of the destination. Five main lines of research on tourist destinations can be established: 1) the management, planning, and marketing of destinations, with special attention to the tourism supply chain, communication, and integral management; 2) the sustainability of resources and capabilities; 3) the renewal of destinations in order to update their offer and main resources to maintain competitiveness; 4) online reputation and comm...

Tourism Sensemaking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Tourism Sensemaking

Intends to advance knowledge and sense-making skills in interpreting cultural, organizational, and personal influences relating to tourism and hospitality behaviors. This title looks at how explicit tourism assessments are being conducted and how to go about accomplishing prescribing and applying advanced assessment metrics.

Sustainability in Art, Fashion and Wine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Sustainability in Art, Fashion and Wine

The art, fashion and wine industries are currently at various stages in their efforts to embrace and transition towards sustainability. While sustainability commitments are a necessary condition for progress, they are not sufficient. Instead, there is a need for sweeping transformative change that includes giving serious consideration to indigenous worldviews without recolonizing them. Sustainability in Art, Fashion and Wine includes findings from recent research and contributes to a new understanding of familiar concepts such as sustainability, (de)colonization and corporate responsibility in the art, fashion and wine industries by adopting critical lenses and incorporating them with innova...

International Marketing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

International Marketing

Features the papers that report a variety of studies examining: international marketing behaviour of firms from emerging markets; market environments and consumer behaviour in emerging markets; and, MNCs' international marketing in emerging markets.

Tourism and Hospitality Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Tourism and Hospitality Management

The book addresses topics such as tourism education and its development in the latter part of the twentieth century, taking “tourism” to be a broader field than “hospitality.”

European Perspectives on Green Biotechnology Business Practices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

European Perspectives on Green Biotechnology Business Practices

Many interesting publications can be found in the field of green biotechnology entrepreneurship, but most of them focus either on entrepreneurship in biotechnologies in general, or address industries that could benefit from the innovations brought about by green biotech. This book is a European approach to the subject, that starts from concepts and principles and moves to specific elements, promotion and management, financial aspects, achieved economic performances, information technology and communication tools that can be used for the initiation and development of a businesses in this sector, all the way up to a brief mapping of some good practices in different European countries. The book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, such as all those interested in starting and developing a business in this field, and also those who just wish to gather green biotech entrepreneurial knowledge, and to develop their skills and competencies in sustainable development.

Korean Wave in South Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Korean Wave in South Asia

This book is a systematic investigation of Korean cultural wave in South Asia, discovering and analysing the dynamics of fandom, mechanism of media industry and growing phenomena of Korean culture in this part of the world. This is one of the very first academic volumes in South Asia that examines cultural politics, language and literatures of Korea in a regional location when there might be some on examining the political and diplomatic relations divorced from socio-cultural interactions. It focuses on three major aspects: identity formation in the age of digital culture, fandom and aspiration in the wake of subculture, and transcultural flow in South Asia. Through these thematic indicators...

Internationalization of Luxury Fashion Firms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Internationalization of Luxury Fashion Firms

Internationalization is an essential component of the business model for luxury fashion companies. Hence, regardless of their size, luxury firms have to develop in foreign markets to seek global demand, build a global image, and manage distribution and communications effectively. Filling a gap in current literature, this book examines the motives, processes, and forms assumed for the internationalization of luxury fashion companies and the relationship between internationalization and business models, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the specific challenges they face. The book proposes cases of Italian SMEs, being Italy a country that is globally recognized as a ...

Research Handbook on Luxury Branding
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 365

Research Handbook on Luxury Branding

Unique and timely, this Research Handbook on Luxury Branding explores and takes stock of the current body of knowledge on luxury branding, as well as offering direction for future research and management in the field. Featuring contributions from an international team of top-level researchers, this Handbook offers analysis and discussion of the profound socioeconomic, psychological, technological and political changes that are affecting the luxury industry, and that will continue to shape its future.