Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on the Editors and Contributors -- 1-An Introduction to The Handbook -- Part I-Approaching Tourism -- 2-The Mobilities Paradigm and Tourism Management -- 3-Critical Turns in Tourism Studies -- 4-Tourism for Poverty Alleviation:...

Purpose – The growing interest in complexity science as a framework for understanding social and economic systems has had, in recent times, an influence on the study of tourism destinations. This paper aims to describe this approach and discuss its theoretical and methodological implications...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Historical Development of Network Theories -- Chapter 3. The Network Concept and Tourism -- Part 1. Qualitative Approaches to Tourism Network Analysis -- Chapter 4. Conceptual Tools for Evaluating...

Tourism destinations have a necessity to innovate in order to remain competitive in an increasingly global environment. A pre-requisite for innovation is the understanding of how destinations source, share and use knowledge. This conceptual paper examines the nature of networks and how their...

This book draws together some of the leading authors in tourism to provide state of the art reviews of research in fields of tourism. The book revisits classic reviews which first appeared over a decade ago in the Progress in Tourism, Recreation and Hospitality Management book series. The...

Purpose: This paper aims to provide a review of hotel performance within the hospitality and tourism research domain. The authors use network analysis to examine two research questions. The first relates to ascertaining general trends within the hotel performance literature, and the second...