Welcome you to a new era for the Journal of Retail and Leisure Property.
The team here is equally committed to delivering that relevant research through this Journal. Our scope will be wide and varied. We are interested primarily in the retail and leisure sectors but we are keen to ensure that we do not exclude areas where lessons can be learned or where retail and/or leisure have some impact.
‘Shops, for example, can now be found…’: in most developments. The new Royal Bank of Scotland headquarters in Edinburgh contains its own shopping street and we now accept shopping as part of the hotel and airport experience. Shopping malls in airports have certain unique characteristics that make their strategic management very different from a city location and ‘… the journal exists to enable the exploration of these and other similar differences’. The transient customers of airports can be contrasted against those found on, for example, an ocean liner who may be described as both closed and fixed. There are lessons to be learned from understanding the management of such operations that are not property in the usual sense.
In summary, we are looking to make the Journal a learning tool for all and we would welcome your feedback or contributions at any time and on any subject that may enable us to identify new and better ways of working in property.
-see more at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/rlp/journal/v7/n1/full/5100085a.html