The choice of centralizing tourism policies at the national level or, on the contrary, of decentralizing them at the … role of originator and attractor of tourism of each spatial unit may imply a range of complex and competing interests at … promoting tourism destinations in order to attract tourists. Nevertheless, potential competition/complementarity between regions …

Culture is gaining increasing importance in the modern tourism industry, and represents a significant force of … attraction for tourists (both domestic and international). Cultural tourism allows destinations and regions to expand their … tourism. Using an 11-year panel of domestic tourism flows, we investigate the importance of the regional endowment in terms of …

We contribute to the debate on whether tourism should be considered a discipline or just a field of study. By re …-arranging Hirst's four criteria (1974) to define a primary form of knowledge (a discipline), we affirm that tourism economics can be … disciplines which are interested in tourism, research into tourism could be interpreted as the logical union of different species …

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 …

LTS allows the identification of more effective policy tools for managing tourism. First, through the concept of LTS, the … policy maker can take into account the complexity of tourism, characterised by a strong heterogeneity of goods, services and … policy co-ordination and under general conditions, the LTS can increase the size of tourism and the firms' profits, thereby …