Most studies about the influence of the euro for tourism calculate the savings of transaction costs of ½‐3% and assume that these amount will increase tourism demand. This paper argues, that the influence of the euro on tourism is much smaller. The transaction costs would have been falling...

The fast changes of the tourism markets make it necessary to adapt destination management organisations, their functions and financing. The paper tries to develop a model for an optimal, efficient destination management system, especially to cope with the problem of limiting the necessary...

Governments of regions and nations as well as international and supra‐national institutions are actors in “direct” tourism policies. Besides these policies, these institutions have to fulfil a minimum of roles in other fields, which are necessary for an optimal development of the world and...

In the theory of international trade tourism was never mentioned explicitly. When the first theories have been developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth century tourism has not been of any importance, so the theory of the international real exchange of goods and services became a theory of...

Unter intelligentem Tourismus soll hier ein Tourismus verstanden werden, der möglichst wenig negative Wirkungen auf die Umwelt (vor allem die Landschaft, aber auch Wasser, Luft usw.), die Wirtschaft und die Gesellschaft hat. Im folgenden soll primär auf die Umweltwirkungen des Tourismus...