Der Beitrag entstand im Rahmen der Mitarbeit des Verfassers am Kapitel "Tourismus" des Leitbildprozesses des Landkreises Fürstenfeldbruck. Es konnten somit Möglichkeiten für die häufig geforderte Kooperation im Tourismus zwischen Stadt und Umland am Beispiel der Stadt München und eines...

Planning policies in several European countries have aimed at hindering the expansion of out-of-town shopping centers. One argument for this is concern for the increase in transport and a resulting increase in environmental externalities such as CO2-emissions. This concern is weakly founded in...

Cattle defecation into rivers and overgrazing of riparian zones, are major concerns for drinking water catchment managers. Behaviour modification has been proposed instead of fencing for managing impacts, but reported success varies. Our study aimed to resolve whether provision of off-stream...

The city is an area that has a complex functionality which is based on the utility of its zones that imprint a quality of life and a specificity to the place, but it is also based on the architectural aesthetics which determines a local lifestyle and a potential which can be exploited through...

The purpose of the present paper is to empirically test the relationship between tourism-and tourist related activities- and house prices. Using a System GMM approach for the time span 1996–2007, the authors empirically test whether house prices in Italy are affected by tourism. This...

Urban tourism is in full expansion due to world-wide urbanisation and internationalisation of our societies. New economic impulse created by investments in urban regeneration, and improving the quality of life, produces different consequences. This paper tries to examines the benefits and costs...

In this paper, the main objective is to introduce the role of urban tourism as a potential form of tourism in the competitive development of the Albanian destination and the role of urban tourism to the community of the Albanian urban areas and the problems related to this development. For the...

Governments still labor to form public/private partnerships to develop sports facilities that will retain teams while also creating benefits for communities. This work is undertaken as advocates point to a stream of possible benefits from a new sports facility, while detractors argue a sports...

Abstract Tourism has been considered as an instrument for urban and regional 'development' policies for many countries, especially for cities/urban areas. Cities are themselves among the important destinations. They offer many touristic attractions together and tourism facilities become a more...

Drawing on theoretical and empirical studies on hotel location, as well as on enquires into the specificities of contemporary suburbanization, the article investigates the drives, directions and consequences of the dispersal of hotels into the suburban areas of large historic cities, with an...