This paper identifies the major demographic trends and their implications for consumer market. It is important to know how will demographic change influence the tourism market in particularly and how can the tourist industry adapt to these. The advancing ageing of society will result in far...

The present paper is an attempt to integrate the concept of human rights into the mainstream tourism discourse. In the name of development, human rights are often neglected while there are definite long-term advantages to be gained by actively promoting it. The paper examines the human rights...

Available evidence from the literature tells that satisfaction depends upon the consistency between expectations and performance. When product performance is below expectations dissatisfaction is resulted, whereas satisfaction arises when performance equals or exceeds the performance expected....

Tourism is a promise and destinations communicate the credibility of that promise by means of destination brands. Branding has become a key tool for tourism destinations to make explicit the complexity of experiences to be expected by tourists visiting a destination. This paper provides a...

The aim of this paper is to underline the role and the importance of the link between local sustainable development and tourism. We analyze the debates about the socioeconomic and environment implications, the promotion of the resource patrimony and destination attractiveness. To be able to...