This e-book looks at the role of modelling in tourism management. In the last five decades, the role and importance of quantitative research in tourism has been well understood because of the emerging need for methodological evidence related to theoretical assumptions. Furthermore, the inter-disciplinary characteristics of tourism management enabled tourism researchers to undertake more collective studies with researchers from other disciplines (such as economics, psychology, sociology and biology). With its growing scope of research and complex characteristics, tourism management has become therefore an attractive research field for all researchers.

Fierce global competition in the tourism industry is now focused on integral parts of supply chains rather than on individual firms. The highly competitive environment has forced tourism firms to look for ways to enhance their competitive advantage. Tourism products are often viewed by consumers as a value-added chain of different service components and identifying ways to effectively manage the interrelated tourism business operations will enable tourism firms to better meet customer needs and accomplish business goals thus maintaining competitive advantage over their equally efficient rivals

Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management is a unique text, which links these three crucial areas of tourism - impacts, planning and management.Tourism impacts are multi-faceted and therefore are difficult to plan for and manage. This title looks at all the key players involved - be they tourists, host communities or industry members - and considers a number of approaches and techniques for managing tourism impacts successfully.Now in a third edition, this bestselling text has been fully revised to include: New material on: terrorism, sustainability, climate change, sex tourism, heritage touris

This book contains coverage and analytical discussion of key areas of contemporary tourism management: evaluation of the most important global trends in tourism, analysis of the impact of crucial environmental issues and their implications and the major factors affecting international tourism. It covers tourism marketing issues and other areas of functional management as well as strategic planning and tourism. The book is structured in four parts: the tourism environment (2 chapters); tourism marketing management (3 chapters); functional management in tourism (4 chapters) and strategic planning in tourism (4 chapters).

Tourism is a flourishing sector nowadays. As the tourism industry has grown exponentially in the past few decades, its proper management and marketing assumed an important role. As for management, there are certain tasks, which have to be taken into account for a number of different reasons. Gathering, maintaining and compiling information about the tourists is of greatest important. Be it a domestic or international, inbound or out-bond tour, providing tourists` information, healthy interaction with them, chalking out plans to cut down expenses and providing the tourists with maximum facilit