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 …

(ICTs) can be used to develop tourism and hospitality. The coverage encompasses a wide variety of topics within the field … in Nicosia, Cyprus by the International Federation for Information Technologies and Travel & Tourism (IFITT) - the … ICTs in the travel and tourism industry. The book offers a global perspective and rich source of information on important …

development of smart tourism. Numerous examples are presented from across the entire spectrum of cultural and heritage tourism …, including art, innovations in museum interpretation and collections management, cross-cultural visions, gastronomy, film tourism …, dark tourism, sports tourism, and wine tourism. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the smart destinations concept and …

tourism -- Willingness to pay.-Wine tourism -- Worldmaking -- World heritage -- Work -- Xenophobia -- Yachting tourism … rental -- Career.-Caribbean -- Carrying capacity -- Case study. - Dark tourism -- Data envelopment analysis -- Decisionmaking … tourism -- Fantasmatics -- Feasibility study -- Feminism -- Festival and event -- Fieldwork -- Fiji -- Gabon -- Gambia -- Game …

This book contains 35 papers from the Tourism Outlook Conference held in Lombok, Indonesia in July 2015. The book … presents comprehensive discussions on sustainability in the tourism industry. It includes research on various constituents of … the tourism sector and analyses of each of them from a sustainability standpoint. Case studies that are global in nature …

doing so, the book provides both theoretical and practical insights into the future of tourism in a world that is … disrupting, re-creating and transforming the production and consumption of tourism. House swapping, ridesharing, voluntourism …, couchsurfing, dinner hosting, social enterprise and similar phenomena are among these collective innovations in tourism that are …

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 …, presenting relevant empirical studies from different parts of the world, based on modern theoretical approaches and adequate …

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 …

-- Intelligence Systems: Mobile, Wearable, and Sensor -- Tourism Website Analytics -- Distribution Systems -- ICT and Tourism …, wearable computing, smart tourism, electronic distribution for tourism and hospitality products and services, e … prominent scholars from around the world and is suitable for both academics and practitioners who are interested in the latest …

international tourism and hospitality industry. This unique industry is particularly ripe for transformation by SE and the book … framework for understanding the uniqueness of SE in the tourism context. The second examines different communities of practice … where SE is being applied in tourism. The third is a rich collection of case studies from eight countries where tourism SE …