Modeling and new trends in tourism : a contribution to social and economic development / Kostas Rontos, José António Filipe and Paris Tsartas (Professor at the University of Aegean, Sociology Department, Greece, and others), editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kostas, Filipe, editor.

Filipe, José António, editor.

Tsartas, Paris, editor.

Series:

Hospitality, tourism and marketing studies.

Hospitality, tourism and marketing studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism.

Tourism--Marketing.

Tourism--Management.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages) : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, [2017]

Summary:

This book focuses on tourism sectors and models the latest trends in tourism activity while providing a new vision for contemporary tourism economy. Tourism is a sector confronting new challenges for advanced and developing economies. Despite global challenges, tourism continues to be a dynamic sector stimulating social and economic development. Moreover, many scientific challenges are identified in order to model and explain countries' tourism sectors, regional and local conditions of tourism and territories' sustainability. In addition, a set of models is provided in this book, contributing to a new vision for contemporary tourism economies, showing new tendencies in this sector and following a scientific approach concerning new policy design aimed at understanding and explaining a new philosophy carried out by governments in terms of the management of the tourism sector. On the other hand, the private sector of economic business opportunities considering the perspectives of tourism are also considered. This book serves as an excellent guide for agents either in public or private sector buildings on the associated scientific methodologies concerning their strategic planning. Therefore, the aim of the present book is to provide some contribution to the areas highlighted above.

Contents:

The Portuguese tourism market : A Model / João Albino Silva, Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira, José António Filipe, and Manuel Coelho

The geography of tourism in Europe : exploring countries and regions of higher or lower development of tourism in the period of crisis / Kostas Rontos, Luca Salvati, Maria-Eleni Syrmali, Ioannis Vavouras, and Efstratia Karagkouni

Anti-commons, regulation and tourism : how to avoid the economic destruction of value / José António Filipe

Islands and tourism : a comprehensive framework for the development of a "new tourism" model / Dimitrios Lagos, Eleni Kitrinou, Kostas Rontos, and Mihail Diakomihalis

Tourism development models in Greece : trends and challenges in an effort to change the paradigm / Paris Tsartas, Efthymia Sarantakou and Alexios-Patapios Kontis

Anti-commons in tourism : evidence from Portugal and Bulgaria / José António Filipe and Desislava Yordanova

HealthWWWCare : total globalization of healthcare / Paulo Sintra

Neuromarketing applied to tourism : an introductory vision / José Chavaglia, José António Filipe, and Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira

Mega-sporting events : their emerging importance for tourism and societies and the need for their strategic enrolment in regional planning / Petros Rontos

The integration of Greece in the system of international tourist operations (1945-1974) : a quantitative analysis / Savvakis Manos and Nikolakakis Michalis

About some stylized facts on tourism : a multidimensional scaling approach / António Bento Caleiro

Data driven marketing decision making : an application of DEA in tourism marketing channels / Alexios-Patapios Kontis and Dimitrios Lagos

Sport events tourism : a perspective analysis for the tourism sector / Teresa Palrão and José António Filipe

An organization design redefinition for the tourism sector using design thinking : sustainable hotels case study / David Lamelas, José Lamelas and José António Filipe

Sociability and the intention to return to a hostel / Paulo Rita, Ana Brochado and Rita Marques

Sky commons as a basis to explore the touristic potential of the Alqueva Area (Portugal) / Áurea Rodrigues and José António Filipe

Management style preference and its impact on employee job satisfaction in independent hotels : an exploratory study / Rebecca Bennett and Miguel Moital

Energy use in hotels : environmental policies towards a sustainable Greek tourist product / Katerina Parpairi

The perceived image of Cape Verde / Pedro Quelhas Brito, Antónia Correia and José Luís Barros.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63485-943-X