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Who's buying entertainment.
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ISBN: 1940308127 Year: 2013 Publisher: Amityville, N.Y. : New Strategist Press,

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Who buys sports and photographic equipment, sound components and TVs, videogames, movie and theater tickets, and much more.


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Advances in hospitality and leisure.
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald,

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Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, a peer-review volume, delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospitality, leisure and tourism. It provides a platform to galvanize thoughts on contemporary issues and merging trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices from a global perspective. The main focus of this volume is to transcend the innovative methods of inquiry so as to inspire new research topics that are vital and have been in large neglected. This volume is keen to address the needs of the populace having interests in disseminating ideas, concepts and theories derived from scholarly investigations. Potential readers may retrieve useful texts to outline new research agendas, suggest viable topics for a dissertation work, and augment the knowledge of the subjects of interest.


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Leisure services financial management
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics,

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Leisure Services Financial Management equips students and professionals with the knowledge and skills to plan, implement, analyze, and report on the financial operations of leisure service agencies, businesses, and organizations. This unique text examines financial management systems, standards, and practices in recreation, leisure, tourism, and related fields, making it an essential reference for both future and current professionals. Leisure Services Financial Management prepares students for the roles and responsibilities of entry-level to middle managers in public, private, and nonprofit sectors of the leisure service industry. Readers will learn: foundational knowledge used in economics, accounting, finance, and marketing; the technical and technological skills involved in managing the financial aspects of a leisure service agency, organization, or business; how to develop a financial management philosophy and practice ethical financial management; and interpersonal skills useful for financial managers interacting with various stakeholders on fund-raising and development initiatives. Leisure Services Financial Management presents current financial management approaches, giving students an understanding of the differences in accounting methodologies and financial report methods across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors. By examining and working with varied examples of financial reports and analyses, students gain experience in creating and interpreting a range of financial report models. Leisure Services Financial Management offers students in-depth discussion of the knowledge and skills necessary for beginning a career in the varied and dynamic leisure service industry. This foundational guide to financial management will serve as an essential resource to both future and current professionals in the leisure industry.


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Advances in hospitality and leisure.
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ISBN: 9781781907467 9781781907474 1781907471 1781907463 9781299789647 1299789641 9781283548687 1283548682 9781780529370 1780529376 9781784411732 1784411736 9781784411749 1784411744 Year: 2013 Publisher: Bingley, U.K. Emerald

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Advances in hospitality and leisure, a peer-review journal, delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospitality, leisure, and tourism. It provides a platform to galvanize thoughts on contemporary issues and emerging trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices from a global perspective. The main focus of this serial is to transcend the innovative methods of inquiry so as to inspire new research topics that are vital and have been in large neglected. The journal is keen to address the needs of the populace having interests in disseminating ideas, concepts and theories derived from scholarly investigations. Potential readers may retrieve useful texts to outline new research agendas, suggest viable topics for a dissertation work, and augment the knowledge of the subjects of interest.


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Qualitative research in gambling : exploring the production and consumption of risk
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ISBN: 0415659388 1306111994 1138924555 0203718879 1134445857 113444592X Year: 2013 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Gambling is both a multi-billion-dollar international industry and a ubiquitous social and cultural phenomenon. It is also undergoing significant change, with new products and technologies, regulatory models, changing public attitudes and the sheer scale of the gambling enterprise necessitating innovative and mixed methodologies that are flexible, responsive and ‘agile’. This book seeks to demonstrate that researchers should look beyond the existing disciplinary territory and the dominant paradigm of ‘problem gambling’ in order to follow those changes across territorial, political, technical, regulatory and conceptual boundaries. The book draws on cutting-edge qualitative work in disciplines including geography, organisational studies, sociology, East Asian studies and anthropology to explore the production and consumption of risk, risky places, risk technologies, the gambling industry and connections between gambling and other kinds of speculation such as financial derivatives. In doing so it addresses some of the most important issues in contemporary social science, including: the challenges of studying deterritorialised social phenomena; globalising technologies and local markets; regulation as it operates across local, regional and international scales; and the rise of games, virtual worlds and social media.


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Quantitative methods in tourism economics
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ISBN: 3790828785 3790829269 3790828793 1283935686 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Springer,

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Tourism economics is partly based on established principles from the economics discipline, but it also incorporates elements from sociology, psychology, organization theory and ecology. It has over the years turned into an appealing multi-disciplinary oriented approach to the understanding of the impacts of leisure time in a modern society, including cultural heritage, sustainable quality of life, and industrial organization of the hospitality industry. The increasing dynamics in the tourist industry and its worldwide effects will continue to attract the attention of both the research and the policy sector in the years to come. Rather than speculating on non-observed facts, there is a clear need for evidence-based research in order to map out the complex dynamics of the tourist industry. The present volume comprises novel studies – mainly of a quantitative-analytical nature – on the supply, demand and contextual aspects of modern tourism. It contains a sound mix of theory, methodology, policy and case studies on various tourism issues in different parts of the world.

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