Environmental valuation studies with tourists have been very popular already over a long period of time. Tourists are an important stakeholder group with respect to the decision if some environmental project in a tourist region should be realized or not. Typically such studies are organized as...

This paper gives an overview of the ways in which virtual worlds (graphical chat and online gaming environments) make extensive use of travel and tourism themes and how online photography (screen capturing) serves to further this metaphor. Marketing materials on informational sites and in...