This paper investigates residents' preferences towards cruise tourism investment in their home port. The research uses … data collected during the peak cruise season in 2011 at Messina, a port of call in Sicily, Italy. A generalized ordered … logit analysis is run to analyse what factors influence the residents' preferences towards investment in cruise tourism …

coastal tourism initiatives. The main research question is: "What lessons could we take from practical experiences?" A related …

sustainable port growth policies, through new or re-designed operational planning. As part of this, introducing new technologies … into port processes and ecosystems that factor in the environment, but have wider-reaching benefits, will enable a move … towards the port of the future. Although the expected consequences of a changed climate are one of the reasons behind actions …