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Lashley Conrad: Vacation Home and Resort
Rentals Management

Vacation Home and Resort Rentals Management

Environmental Intelligence in Sustainable Hospitality Operations provides a comprehensive, accessible, and data-led approach for achieving sustainability through the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) across hospitality operations.The volume explains how smart sensors, real-time environmental monitoring, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation can optimize energy and water consumption, reduce food and material waste, enhance indoor air quality, and support carbon reduction strategies in hotels, resorts, restaurants, and allied tourism services. Chapters introduce practical frameworks for designing and implementing smart sustainable systems, including digital dashboards, AI-enabled decision models, and performance indicators aligned with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) requirements, supported with international applied case studies throughout. The book also addresses critical implementation issues such as data management, ethics, cybersecurity, investment justification, and organizational readiness.By combining environmental science with hospitality innovation, this innovative and timely book offers a comprehensive guide for researchers, students, industry professionals, and policymakers seeking scalable pathways toward low-carbon, resource-efficient, and resilient hospitality operations.

AI and The Internet of Things Implications

Environmental Intelligence in Sustainable Hospitality Operations

This accessible and thought-provoking book offers a critical exploration of global health philanthropy, blending personal narrative with a rigorous examination of the field's challenges and opportunities. Grounded in the authors' decades of experience, Crossroads in Global Health reflects on the transformative power of medicine, the complexities of global health engagement, and the enduring human impulse to alleviate suffering. The authors examine the tension between short-term relief and durable system change, and show how reframing global health as a marketplace, powered by data, analytics, and AI, can better match resources to need and turn goodwill into measurable impact.Key Features:· Explores the history, evolution, and critiques of global health, with a focus on discrete philanthropic medical missions.· Examines the landscape of global health needs and resources, shaped by logistics, incentives, and institutional structures.· Reflects on the authors' personal journeys in global health, offering insights into the challenges and lessons learned from decades of experience.· Proposes innovative approaches to harnessing data and technology to create a more efficient and accountable marketplace for global health philanthropy.· Balances the importance of systemic solutions with the moral imperative of immediate care, emphasizing the enduring value of direct human connection in medicine.Building on the authors' previous works, including the World Compendium of Healthcare Facilities and Nonprofit Organizations, this book is an essential resource for medical practitioners, academics, and professionals in the non-profit, public, and private sectors. It offers a compelling call to action for those seeking to make a meaningful impact in global health, while honoring the profound responsibility and transformative potential of the medical profession.

Pragmatic Solutions in a Complex World

Crossroads in Global Health

A practical introduction to designing and managing contemporary visitor attractions. Visitor Attraction Management by Carol Southall, Amanda Payne and Frances-Marie Hitchen is written for undergraduate students studying Tourism, Hospitality and Events Management who need a clear and applied understanding of how visitor attractions are created, operated and sustained. This textbook supports students by linking tourism management frameworks with the realities of a fast-changing global attractions sector. The book explores the full spectrum of visitor attractions, from theme parks and cultural museums to luxury eco-resorts and emerging digital experiences. It examines how memorable visitor experiences are designed and managed, how attractions operate day to day and how branding, promotion and innovation shape competitiveness. This textbook includes: - Clear explanations of different types of visitor attractions and experience design principles - Coverage of attraction operations, service quality and risk management - Branding and promotion strategies for marketing attractions and experiences - Discussion of emerging technologies and entrepreneurial innovation - In-text learning features, including learning outcomes, scenario planning activities, research tasks and critical debate questions With expanded real-world examples from destinations including Petra and Venice, attractions such as Alton Towers, Walt Disney World and the British Museum, and digital innovations like the Terracotta Warriors AR Experience in China, this textbook equips students with the knowledge and confidence to prepare for careers in tourism and visitor attractions management.

Contemporary Approaches in the Global Tourism Industry

Visitor Attraction Management

*VANITY FAIR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025*ONE OF NEW REPUBLIC'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR*KIRKUS' BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025*ONE OF AV CLUB'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025*"[An] indictment of an industry that has cannily tilted the playing field in its favor. Bad Company details how clichéd abstractions like ‘consolidation’ and ‘efficiency’ have given cover to real betrayals.” - The New York TimesA timely work of singular reportage and a damning indictment of the private equity industry told through the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the ruinous effects of private equity takeovers.Private equity runs our country, yet few Americans have any idea how ingrained it is in their lives. Private equity controls our hospitals, daycare centers, supermarket chains, voting machine manufacturers, local newspapers, nursing home operators, fertility clinics, and prisons. The industry even manages highways, municipal water systems, fire departments, emergency medical services, and owns a growing swath of commercial and residential real estate.Private equity executives, meanwhile, are not only among the wealthiest people in American society, but have grown to become modern-day barons with outsized influence on our politics and legislation. CEOs of firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, KKR, and Apollo are rewarded with seats in the Senate and on the boards of the country’s most august institutions; meanwhile, entire communities are hollowed out as a result of their buyouts. Workers lose their jobs. Communities lose their institutions. Only private equity wins.Acclaimed journalist Megan Greenwell’s Bad Company unearths the hidden story of private equity by examining the lives of four American workers that were devastated as private equity upended their employers and communities: a Toys R Us floor supervisor, a rural doctor, a local newspaper journalist, and an affordable housing organizer. Taken together, their individual experiences also pull back the curtain on a much larger project: how private equity reshaped the American economy to serve its own interests, creating a new class of billionaires while stripping ordinary people of their livelihoods, their health care, their homes, and their sense of security.In the tradition of deeply human reportage like Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, Megan Greenwell pulls back the curtain on shadowy multibillion dollar private equity firms, telling a larger story about how private equity is reshaping the economy, disrupting communities, and hollowing out the very idea of the American dream itself. Timely and masterfully told, Bad Company is a forceful rebuke of America’s most consequential, yet least understood economic forces.

Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

Bad Company

A Managerial Approach

Sport Law

Build strategic and technological insight at the intersection of finance and innovation. Principles of Fintech by Alex Zarifis is a practical textbook designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students in business and financial management. Closely aligned with modules in Fintech, digital finance and financial innovation, it equips learners with the knowledge and applied frameworks needed to understand, evaluate and implement financial technologies across contemporary systems. This textbook explores the core technologies and business models shaping the Fintech landscape, from generative AI and blockchain to digital payments, InsurTech and WealthTech. Students are guided through how fintech solutions are developed, implemented and scaled, while critically assessing issues of ethics, governance, regulation and risk management. This textbook includes: - Clear learning objectives and summaries to frame each chapter and consolidate understanding - Applied frameworks linking theory to financial practice - Reflective questions and activities to encourage deeper analysis - Real-world examples to strengthen critical evaluation With its balanced integration of theory, application and critical reflection, Principles of Fintech prepares students to contribute to the evolving world of digital finance and financial innovation.

Financial Technology, Business Models and Strategic Innovation

Principles of Fintech

The Hotel Development and Management Guide is an accessible, global, end-to-end reference book that illustrates how hotel concepts are conceived, financed, branded, operated and governed, connecting strategy, finance and department-level operations into one integrated framework.Readers gain a clear, decision-grade understanding of how hotel value is created and sustained across the full lifecycle. The book integrates feasibility, brand and operator strategy, departmental operations, asset management, and emerging forces such as AI and ESG, using practical frameworks, checklists, and financially grounded analysis to support real-world decision-making. Case studies are integrated throughout from hotel owners around the world to showcase real life situations and issues.This invaluable text offers an integrated, one stop professional-level reference for hotel owners and investors, as well as upper-level undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA and executive-education students studying hospitality management and hotel operations management.

The Hotel Development and Management Guide

Theory in Sport Management: Insights and Applications aims to serve as a comprehensive resource for understanding, applying, evaluating, and developing theory in sport management.Recognizing theory as the foundation of scholarly inquiry, evidence-based practice, and effective teaching, the book provides readers with the theoretical foundations and practical guidance needed to engage with theory more effectively. Designed for students, scholars, educators, and practitioners, the book brings together 45 chapters authored by leading sport management scholars from around the world. Each chapter examines a major theory through a consistent structure that includes an overview of the theory, its application across disciplines, its use within sport management, and recommendations for future research and practice. The Recommendation section that concludes each chapter serves as a practical guide for readers seeking the theory most relevant to their work, pointing toward typical applications and promising directions while presenting each theory in its full nuance by the contributor who knows it best. The book demonstrates how theory can be used to explain sport phenomena, guide research, inform teaching, support decision-making, advance scholarship, and shape future developments in the field.As one of the most comprehensive theory-focused volumes in sport management, this edited collection offers an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand and leverage theory in sport.

Insights and Applications

Theory in Sport Management

Sustainability has become a highly important policy framework for tourism, and the ideals of sustainable development are guiding tourism developers in their planning thinking. This book provides a thorough overview of the key discussions that are focusing on setting the limits to growth in tourism development in local-global nexus. The key focus is on sustainable tourism with a further aim to rethink critically the idea of sustainability in tourism and its relations to carrying capacity, responsibility and other potential frameworks. International and case studies and examples are integrated throughout. This is essential reading for Tourism students.

Identifying the Limits to Growth in Tourism Development

Governing Tourism for Sustainability

Security, Audit and Leadership Series

Organizational Debt and AI Failure: Why Your AI Project Fails challenges the assumption that unsuccessful artificial intelligence initiatives are primarily caused by weak models, insufficient computing power, or poor technology choices. Instead, Scott Andersen argues that AI often fails because it is introduced into organizations carrying years of unresolved structural debt.The book presents a practical framework for identifying and managing five interconnected forms of organizational debt: technical, data, personnel, security, and embedded debt. Technical debt creates fragile architectures and brittle integrations. Data debt undermines meaning, lineage, context, and trust. Personnel debt appears through skill gaps, unclear responsibilities, burnout, and dependence on a few critical individuals. Security debt weakens identity, governance, assurance, and accountability. Embedded debt connects them through undocumented assumptions, informal processes, workarounds, and hidden dependencies.AI does not necessarily create these weaknesses-it exposes and accelerates them. Processes that remained stable through human judgment and manual intervention can collapse when automated systems begin operating continuously and at machine speed. What appeared to be resilience may have depended on people quietly compensating for organizational problems.Drawing on decades of enterprise architecture and technology experience, Andersen explains why promising pilots become trapped in "pilot purgatory," why local improvements can increase systemwide risk, and why failures frequently emerge at the seams between technologies, teams, data, and decision authorities. He introduces practical concepts and measures-including Total AI Debt Exposure and Total AI Operational Pressure-to help leaders make risk visible and actionable.This book is written for executives, architects, technology leaders, security professionals, data teams, program managers, and organizations preparing to scale AI. Its central message is direct: successful AI transformation does not begin with adoption. It begins with organizational truth. By identifying, measuring, and governing the debt already present, organizations can move beyond experimentation and build AI systems that achieve delivery, adoption, and sustained operational value.

Why your AI projects fail

Organizational Debt

Vacation Home and Resort Rentals Management

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