Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1 Leisure, Tourism and Space; An Introduction -- Part II: Tourism, Specialisation and … Competition -- Chapter 2 Ranking World Tourism Competitiveness. A Comparison of Two Composite Indicators -- Chapter 3 Smart … Tourism Specialization to Outfox the Competition: An analytical framework -- Chapter 4 Key Geographical Factors for Inbound …

Tourism Services and Activities in Italy, Greece and Croatia -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Concept of Tourism -- 4.3 Tourism …Tourism economics is partly based on established principles from the economics discipline, but it also incorporates … quantitative-analytical nature - on the supply, demand and contextual aspects of modern tourism. It contains a sound mix of theory …

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 …

'Advances in Tourism Economics' follows his predecessor 'Advances in Modern Tourism Research' (2007) in providing a … of modern tourism economics and positions the field within the strong tradition of quantitative economic research, with … due attention for both the demand and supply side of the tourism sector, including technological and logistic advances. …