Maria Giaoutzi

Tourism and Regional Development

New Pathways
Herausgeber: Nijkamp, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tourist visits used to be a less common activity in the past. However, more people than ever now make leisure trips, making this an era of mass tourism. This drastic change in spatial behaviour is not only caused by economic prosperity, but the scale of this phenomenon means that it is able to generate economic growth, making tourism a key factor in regional development policy. One of the main challenges of current regional policy is to market the attractiveness of an area, thereby increasing tourist visits and subsequent revenue. In particular, regions are attempting this through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), which offer information on interesting places, and efficient methods for organizing and booking trips. This book examines the interconnections between tourism, ICT and regional development. Bringing together a range of European case studies illustrating various ICT and policy innovations, it not only critiques current activity by regions in terms of tourism development, but also considers how this sector is likely to continue to grow.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 651g
• ISBN-13: 9780754647461
• ISBN-10: 0754647463
• Artikelnr.: 47711992

Autorenporträt

Maria Giaoutzi is Professor of Geography and Regional Planning at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Peter Nijkamp is Professor in the Department of Spatial Economics, Free University, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Emerging trends in tourism development in an open world, Maria
Giaoutzi and Peter Nijkamp. Tourism, Regional Development and
Communications Technology: Information technologies and tourism
development, Elvira Morella; 'Reverse network engineering': a top-down and
bottom-up approach in the tourist market, Dirk-Jan F. Kamann and Dirk
Strijker; The potential of virtual organizations in local tourist
development, Anastasia Stratigea, Maria Giaoutzi and Peter Nijkamp;
E-travel business: e-market places vs. tourism product suppliers, Dimitris
Papakonstantinou; ICTs and local tourist development in peripheral regions,
Anastasia Stratigea and Maria Giaoutzi; European informational cultures and
the urbanisation of the Mediterranean coasts, Lila Leontidou.
Methodological Advances in Tourism Research: Economic impacts of tourism: a
meta-analytic comparison of regional output multipliers, Eveline S. van
Leeuwen, Peter Nijkamp and Piet Rietveld; Competition among tourist
destinations: an application of data envelopment analysis to Italian
provinces, M.Francesca Cracolici and Peter Nijkamp; Delineating ecoregions
for tourism development, Thomas Hatzichristos, Maria Giaoutzi and John C.
Mourmouris; Tourism and the political agenda: towards an integrated
web-based multicriteria framework for conflict resolution, Andrea De Montis
and Peter Nijkamp; A methodology for eliciting public preferences for
managing cultural heritage sites: an application to the temples of Paestum,
Patrizia Riganti, Annamaria Nese and Ugo Colombino. Policy Strategies on
Tourism: The importance of friends and relations in tourist behaviour: a
case study on heterogeneity in Surinam, Pauline Poel, Enno Masurel and
Peter Nijkamp; Technology transfer to small businesses in the tourist
sector: supporting regional economic development, Peter M. Townroe;
Possibilities for using ICT to realize heritage and eco-tourism potential:
a case study on the Zululand region of South Africa, Peter Robi