Advances in Modern Tourism Research Economic Perspectives
Modern Advances in Tourism Research provides a thorough assessment of state-of-the-art academic research in this recent field of economic science. The authors start by scoping the scene of tourism research, evolving then to a comprehensive analysis of the
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Álvaro Matias · Peter Nijkamp Paulo Neto (Eds.)
Advances in Modern Tourism Research Economic Perspectives
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Prof. Dr. Álvaro Matias University of Évora Department of Economics Urban and Regional Analysis and Research Laboratory Largo dos Colegiais 2 Apartado 94 7002-554 Évora Portugal [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Paulo Neto University of Évora Department of Economics Urban and Regional Analysis and Research Laboratory Largo dos Colegiais 2 Apartado 94 7000-554 Évora Portugal [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Peter Nijkamp Free University Department of Economics De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands [email protected] Publication sponsored by:
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Editorial Preface
Many trips by car or train are nowadays leisure trips. And most passengers on board of an airplane are tourists. Indeed, we enter an age of large-scale tourism, for the time being in the industrialized part of the world, but soon to be followed by mass tourism trends in emerging economies. Consequently, tourism will become a major factor of economic growth in the future. In the past decades, we have witnessed an increasing volume of publications on tourist-economic issues, sometimes of a case study nature, sometimes of a statistically-modelling nature and sometimes of a conceptual or methodological nature. It turns out that tourism research is on a rising edge, and it is likely that this trend will continue in the future. The present volume follows this trend and offers a collection of systematically selected and original research papers on new economic perspectives on tourism research and policy. Most papers were initially presented at an international conference on tourism-economic research in Evora, Portugal in 2005. After a careful screening and revision process, this has led to the current
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