prompted the emergence of a specific booming and rapidly growing mobility industry all over the world, namely tourism. The … decay, etc.). Time has now come to offer a synthesis of the analytical apparatus in tourism research, with particular … attention for system-wide, socio-economic and environmental dimensions of this important global industry. Tourism has in the …

authenticity. Allan Jepson is a senior academic in Event Management Tourism, and researcher within the Marketing Insight research … Journal of Culture, Tourism Hospitality Research, Marketing Intelligence and Planningand the Journal of Policy Research in … Tourism, Leisure and Events. His research with Alan Clarke explores power, hegemony and decision making processes that produce …

This book presents a series of studies on the socio-economic impacts of tourism, with a special focus on the … determinants of tourism competitiveness at the destination level. The authors offer a systematic overview of this important issue … and assessment of quantitative tourism impacts on local economies, while the second part focuses on non-material aspects …

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 of tourism can be assessed. Tourism impact assessment - as a systematic … approach to the estimation of socio-economic effects of tourism on relevant parts of the economy - has become a timely response …

'Advances in Tourism Economics' follows his predecessor 'Advances in Modern Tourism Research' (2007) in providing a … of modern tourism economics and positions the field within the strong tradition of quantitative economic research, with … due attention for both the demand and supply side of the tourism sector, including technological and logistic advances. …

Part I: Introduction to the Economics of Tourism -- 1 Definitions and Key Concepts -- 2 The Tourism Sector in the … Economy -- 3 The Economics of Tourism Destinations -- Part II: The Microeconomics of Tourism -- 4 The Consumer Theory Applied … to the Tourist -- 5 A Close Examination of the Consumer Theory Applied to the Tourist -- 6 Production in Tourism -- 7 The …