Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a critical framework to analyse how “smart” plays out in tourism places. Moving from a recognition of the strategies, expected impacts and imageries of Smart City, the authors engage with the mobilities literature to identify pitfalls in the...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction / Russo, Antonio Paolo / Richards, Greg -- Part 1: New Products and Hospitality Models -- 2. The Shifting Spatial Logic of Tourism in Networked Hospitality / Russo, Antonio Paolo / Domínguez, Alan Quaglieri -- 3. Authority...

Ownership takeovers often follow complex strategies where the control of the target firm is acquired through a sequence of independent contracts. We study the role of capital gain taxes on the contract structure and on the method of finance of merger and acquisitions (M&As). We find that capital...