, resembling the underlying differences in tourism infrastructure and capacities available within each Region …

Cruise tourism generates an estimated $18 billion a year in passenger expenditure and has been the fastest growing … decision making process and the establishment of policies and strategies for cruise ship tourism. We focus on the case of Costa … Rica using data collected by the Costa Rican Tourism Institute during the period 2006 - 2008 …

The growth of the tourism sector in the last years, and in particular of the accommodation industry, has increased the … importance of investment on the quality of tourism services. In this respect, the environmental quality of destination, has … become a tool that hotels have to hold the tourism demand. In this paper we are going to present a model of vertical …