The Economics of Tourism (Contemporary Tourism Reviews) (Routledge Advances in Tourism)
by Thea Thea Sinclair, Mike Stabler, and Andreas Papatheodorou
Makes a key contribution from an economic standpoint to the understanding of tourism. Examining such issues as how tourism firms operate in national and global contexts, the effects of tourism on destination areas, the demand for tourism, and the interaction between tourism and natural environments, this comprehensive introduction explains how econ
Routledge Handbook of Sport Governance (Routledge International Handbooks)
The Routledge Handbook of Sport Governance is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the wide range of issues shaping sport governance. It considers the evolution of the sport industry from a largely amateur, volunteer-driven sector into the globalised business that it is today and examines how professionalisation has fundamentally shifted the governance landscape for sport organisations and all those working within sport. Written by a team of leading sport management scholars from around...
Third Age and Leisure: Research, Principles and Practice
by Barbara Humberstone
The Equine Business Guide
This book examines the ways in which sport for development and peace (SDP) offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship to take place through and within sport, and how innovation in the context of SDP contributes to social and economic value for underrepresented and marginalised groups and individuals. Written by a team of leading international SDP researchers, and featuring the voices of active SDP practitioners, the book examines the ways in which entrepreneurs seek to use sport and/or social...
Management of Fitness, Physical Activity, Recreation & Sport
by Thomas H Sawyer and Lawrence W. Judge
Health Club Management Handbook
The football business is changing while the game's traditional regulatory institutions are struggling to keep up with the problems raised by the sport's success. This work takes a look at who runs football and where the increasing amounts of money that flow into the game actually go. Contributors include David Conn, author of "The Football Business"; Armand Caraben, a former general manager of Barcelona Football Club; Adam Brown, a member of the Football Task Force; Brian Lomax, elected director...
“A page-turner . . . as suspenseful as a late drive in the fourth quarter to win a championship.”—Los Angeles Review of Books **A New York Post Best Book of the Year** As decades of headline news stories attest, there is nothing Nike won’t do to win. Mistreating employees, eliminating competition, and secrecy are all part of the playbook. There is perhaps no clearer example of this than Nike’s ongoing experiment at the University of Oregon, where the company has donated more than half a bill...
South Africa's World Cup
This book provides a critically informed and holistic analysis of the impact and legacy of mega-sporting events through the lens of South Africa's 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup and its associated developmental paradigm. In doing so, the book challenges mainstream thinking and mega-event praise singers by providing rigourous political-economic analysis and concrete evidence to show that this sporting spectacular was little more than a front for massive accumulation and extraction of wealth, alongsid...
During the 1990s the football industry has undergone a revolution of spectacular proportions: money men have become as important as the players and managers, and the workings of club stocks and shares, multi-million-pound transfers, merchandise, television deals and cash bungs are as high-profile as the matches played. This revolution and its repercussions for the game's future are discussed in this book, which focuses especially on the 1998 World Cup Finals and their impact on English football,...
Safe Operation of Passenger Carrying Amusement Devices (Guidance Note, PM 48)
2019 Sugar Skull Planner Green Organize Your Weekly, Monthly, & Daily Agenda
by Kai Bleu Journals and Ultimate Planner Journal
Business Systems for Leisure and Tourism (Hodder GNVQ - Leisure & Tourism in Action S.)
by John Edmonds, Sue Cundell, and Debbie Betteridge
Managing Events, Festivals and the Visitor Economy
This edited text, intended to support a research-informed approach to learning and teaching, presents an array of concepts, collaborations and in-depth cases related to managing events, festivals and the visitor economy. Authors offer an array of philosophical, political, cultural, and ethical perspectives on how to achieve this across a range of contexts, from Cambodia, China, Egypt to the British cathedral city of Lincoln. Though recognising individual difference, each chapter unites in their...
Encyclopedia of Sport Management (Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management)
Bringing together preeminent international researchers, emerging scholars and practitioners, Paul M. Pedersen presents the comprehensive Encyclopedia of Sport Management, offering detailed entries for the critical concepts and topics in the field. This excellent resource contains 330 entries from 250 of the leading experts in sport management. The entries cover managerial, finance, marketing, technology, and organizational behavior topics, as well as communication, legal, historical, sociologic...
This book explains the relevance of theories prevalent amongst business and management consultants to the leisure sector and provides practical advice for leisure managers. The author illustrates how theories can be applied by leisure managers and also examines a range of issues specific to leisure, such as maximally efficient use of premises for dual purposes. Bill Tancred is the author of "Health Related Fitness - How to Get Fit and Stay Fit for the Rest of Your Life".