Synergien von Events und Tourismus -- Bedeutung von Events für Destinationen -- Destinationen und Location als Rahmen des Events -- Ökonomische Wirkungen von Events für touristische Räume -- Nachhaltiger Tourismus mit Events.

The Festschrift in honor of Prof. Dr. Peter Keller, president of the International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (AIEST) since 1994, represents a wide range of tourism research as well as the current state of the ongoing debates in tourism as a scientific research field. The aim...

Tourism and hospitality industry is facing a substantial amount of opportunities and challenges due to the globalization. The Third International Conference on Tourism and Hospitality between China and Spain (ICTCHS) provides a unique global forum for academics, thought leaders and key industry...

International tourism is expected to be a major vehicle of economic development in industrializing countries in the 21st century, especially for Asia. To generate long-term growth, countries with tourism-based economies must develop strategies for employing their comparative advantages to...

A Bicriteria Traveling Salesman Problem with Sequence Priorities -- Metaheuristics for Tourist Trip Planning -- Solving Fuzzy Multi-Item Economic Order Quantity Problems via Fuzzy Ranking Functions and Particle Swarm Optimization -- Fixed and Variable Toll Pricing in Road Networks with Direct...

New Data on Tourism and Changing Travel Behaviour -- Challenges in Global Aviation Management -- Hospitality Management in a Changing Environment -- Destination Management: Product - Branding - Promotion -- Marketing Management in Global Tourism: Identifying New Opportunities -- Business Travel...

Over the last decades, mass-tourism and the emergence of the holiday package have transformed recreational travel from a ‘luxury for the few’ to a ‘commodity for the many’. The ever-increasing demand for individuality, enabled by information technologies and the internet, has given rise...

The assessment of local, regional or national impacts of an influx of tourists - of different kind and origin - has in recent years become a new challenge for economics research in the tourism sector. There is a clear need to develop solid methodologies through which the socio-economic impacts...

The challenge for cruise operators is to come to terms with a changing world where the realities of the past are not constant. This textbook presents a compendium of important issues that were discussed at the 2nd International Cruise Conference in Plymouth (UK) between the 18th and 20th...

Die Globalisierung von Wertschöpfungsketten intensiviert den Wettbewerb von Regionen und touristischen Destinationen. Da regionale Netzwerke im Wettbewerb Standortvorteile sichern, gewinnen kompetenzorientierte Unternehmenskooperationen und deren strategisches Management zunehmend an Bedeutung....