Destinations are strategic marketing units which consist of territorially delimited, consolidated areas of co‐operation. Options to improve a destination's competitive edge depend on the determinants of competitiveness. A destination's competitive position can be explained by factor conditions...

The availability of an adequate pool of suitable labour is a key location factor for the labour‐intensive hotel and restaurant business. Yet, in spite of high unemployment (unemployment rate: 17,3%) and schemes to import foreign seasonal workers, the sector still encounters considerable...

In its efforts to foster tourism development the state has the choice of either giving direct grants or stimulating specipc investments and promoting co‐operation through low‐interest loans. In either case, the effort is aimed to improve the supply and preserve the competitive capacity of...

Der Tourismus ist in vielen Ländern zu einem bedeu‐tenden sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Phänomen gewor‐den, sodass die Erklärung seiner langfristigen Entwicklung von zunehmendem Interesse 1st.

The impact of tourism on the economy of a country can be described through the use of input‐output analysis, which allows the calculation of the direct and indirect value added effects of tourism spending. After this stage of value added generation a new multiplier process — induced through...

In a study commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Austrian Institute of Economic Research conducted a written survey of the Austrian hotel industry (hotels and similar establishments). The sample comprised more than 3,000 establishments in the three to five star category.