Tourist Clusters, Destinations and Competitiveness

Theoretical issues and empirical evidences
Herausgeber: Capone, Francesco

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy. Increasingly, research on tourism destinations has been at the centre of debates concerning destination competitiveness, governance, policies and destination management and marketing. This book investigates tourist destinations from two key perspectives and will appeal to academics, scholars and practitioners in tourism studies, management, urban and regional studies and economic geography, etc.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9781138891692
• ISBN-10: 113889169X
• Artikelnr.: 43679213

Autorenporträt

Francesco Capone is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A bibliometric analysis on tourist destinations research: Focus on
destination management and tourist cluster 2. Destination management and
competitiveness: Literature review and a destination competitiveness
analysis 3. The impact of related variety on tourist destinations: An
analysis of tourist firms clustering 4. Defining tourist clusters in
Europe: A micro-level data approach 5. Do tourist clusters boost hotels'
performance?: Resilience in a crisis period in Italy 6. How does
concentration affect hotels' performance?: An empirical study of US panel
data 7.Tourism, creativity and entrepreneurship: New firm formation in
Tuscany 8. The experience-related economy in the UK