Tourist clusters, destinations and competitiveness : theoretical issues and empirical evidences

Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy. Increasingly, research on tourism destinations has been at the centre of debates concerning destination competitiveness, governance, policies and destination management and marketing. This book investigates tourist destinations from two key perspectives and will appeal to academics, scholars and practitioners in tourism studies, management, urban and regional studies and economic geography, etc.

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Year of publication:	2016
Other Persons:	Capone, Francesco (contributor)
Publisher:	London : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business

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Extent:	1 online resource (xiv, 187 pages)
Series:	Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy Ser.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Tourist destinations, clusters and competitiveness: an introduction; PART I Tourist destinations, destination management, clusters and competitiveness; 1 A bibliometric analysis on tourist destinations research: focus on destination management and tourist cluster; 2 Destination management and competitiveness: literature review and a destination competitiveness analysis; 3 The impact of related variety on tourist destinations: an analysis of tourist firms clustering 4 Defining tourist clusters in Europe: a micro-level data approachPART II Tourist clusters and performance, creative and experience economy; 5 Do tourist clusters boost hotels' performance?: resilience in a crisis period in Italy; 6 How does concentration affect hotels' performance?: an empirical study of USA panel data; 7 Tourism, creativity and entrepreneurship: new firm formation in Tuscany; 8 The experience-related economy in the UK; Index
ISBN:	978-1-138-89169-2 ; 978-1-138-89169-2
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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