The early days of tourism development had a naïve vision of tourism’s impacts on society in terms of economic, social …, and environmental benefits. Time has passed, and we have learnt lessons regarding the success and failure of tourism … development. Mass tourism development has pros and cons and is not necessarily the optimal development model. Alternative …

resources, unable or unready to sustain huge tourism flows, present serious problems of sustainability and Tourism Carrying … evaluating the costs and benefits from alternative management tourism actions. The aim of the paper is to present an innovative … framework, based on the LAC approach - MABSiT, Mobile Agent Behavior Simulation in Tourism - developed by the authors, which is …