Environmental resources constitute the 'raw materials' for tourism. This sector represents the driving force behind the … enable their full exploitation. However, island systems have low stability, as they are highly sensitive to exogenous stress …. This work systematically examines the effects and the feedbacks that the economy of tourism may generate in small areas …

This study analyses the potential impact of climate change on EU tourism demand and provides long-term (2100) scenarios … accounting for adaptation in terms of holiday duration. Our long-term projections for tourism demand are based on hedonic … hypotheses regarding the time dimension of tourism demand. We derive alternative scenarios for adaptation of holiday in terms of …

Exploring the main determinants of tourism participation at national and international level, the paper investigates if … there are differences in tourism consumption behavior among Italian families which reflect disparities in their standard of …-2007. Results show that participation in the tourism market is strongly affected by the personal characteristics of individuals and …