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Competitiveness and Tourism brings together the key scholarly articles which discuss the challenges of managing …, maintaining and enhancing competitive tourism destinations. This authoritative title of articles covers service sector competition …; conceptual models of tourism competitiveness; the measurement and modeling of tourism competitiveness; organizing, planning and …

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