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Summary
Summary
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.
Author Notes
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.
Table of Contents
| Emerging trends in tourism development in an open worldMaria Giaoutzi and Peter Nijkamp |
| Tourism, Regional Development and Communications Technology |
| Information technologies and tourism developmentElvira Morella |
| A top-down and bottom-up approach in the tourist marketDirk-Jan F. Kamann and Dirk Strijker |
| The potential of virtual organizations in local tourist development, Anastasia StratigeaMaria Giaoutzi and Peter Nijkamp |
| E-travel business: e-market places vs. tourism product suppliers, Dimitris Papakonstantinou |
| ICTs and local tourist development in peripheral regionsAnastasia Stratigea and Maria Giaoutzi |
| European informational cultures and the urbanisation of the Mediterranean coastsLila Leontidou |
| Economic impacts of tourism: a meta-analytic comparison of regional output multipliersEveline S. van Leeuwen and Peter Nijkamp and Piet Rietveld |
| Competition among tourist destinations: an application of data envelopment analysis to Italian provincesM.Francesca Cracolici and Peter Nijkamp |
| Delineating ecoregions for tourism developmentThomas Hatzichristos and Maria Giaoutzi and John C. Mourmouris |
| Tourism and the political agenda: towards an integrated web-based multicriteria framework for conflict resolutionAndrea De Montis and Peter Nijkamp |
| A methodology for eliciting public preferences for managing cultural heritage sites: an application to the temples of PaestumPatrizia Riganti and Annamaria Nese |
| The importance of friends and relations in tourist behaviour: a case study on heterogeneity in SurinamPauline Poel and Enno Masurel and Peter Nijkamp |
| Technology transfer to small businesses in the tourist sector: supporting regional economic developmentPeter M. Townroe |
| Possibilities for using ICT to realize heritage and eco-tourism potential: a case study on the Zululand region of South AfricaPeter Robinson |
| Tourism, technological change and regional development in IslandsHarry Coccossis |
| Regional development, environment and the tourist productSpyros J. Vliamos |
| Index |
