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Part I - Economics history of tourism.
1. E assim surge a cidade maravilhosa: intervenções urbanas e turismo no rio antigo.
2. Six decades of contemporary tourism development in Catalonia. An analysis from the perpective of destination life cycle and regulation theories.
Part 2 - Transport systems.
3. Transporte aéreo: aplicação do modelo das cinco forças de Porter.
4. High-speed rail, service innovations and urban and business tourism development
Part 3 - Demand, internacional trade and destination maturity.
5. Exchange rate volatility and international visitor arrivals to the home ok work: Cambodia: fresh empirical evidence.
6. O comércio bilateral permite explicar a procura de turismo? Evidência para Portugal.
7. Turismo residencial e resorts integrados: estratégias de rejuvenescimento em destnos maduros? O caso do Algarve.
Part 4 - Tourism planning and development.
8. Cultural heritage and turism development policies: the case of a portuguese UNESCO world heritage city.
9. Potentials of rural tourism in the czech republic rural regions.
10. Destination management and community participation in ecotourism development.
Part 5 - Competitiveness in hotel management.
11. Innovative behaviour in the hospitality industry of emerging urban destinations.
12. Environmental attitudes of hoteliers in Dubrovnik area and their contribution to susteinable development of the community.
13. Sources of productivity growth in the Andalucian hotel industry.
Part 6 - Sustainability and economic impacts.
14. Tourism specialization and economic growth: an empirical analysis.
15. Community-based tourism as a tool of cooperation to national development. A study of case.
16. Tourism and poverty alleviation: the role of the international development assistance.
Part 7 - Culture and events.
17. Universities as events organizers: economic impact and importance as business tourism.
18. The market of music festivals: an expenditure patterns' segmentation.
Tourism sector has significant weight in the countries gross domestic product
and also contributes to equilibrate the balance of transactions, to extend the
lransactions of goods and services, to increase the employment, to develop the
in terchange between cultures, as well as the mobility of people.
Tourism impacts are not always positive, however, the positive aspects of the
social, environmental, technological and economic impacts are superior to the
negative ones.
The main new trends of tourism are based on the more relevant mankind needs
of going out from routine, in the pressure of daily life, in safety, in healthy life
lind in the nature, what consequently implies the development of tourism offer
segments, such as short city breaks, cruise tourism, health and wellness tourism and also eco-tourism. Although the sun and beach product, during
summertime, be the first choice of tourists, the cultural and business tourism
are products that are sold in the other three seasons of the year.
In this book, the authors intend to contribute with some answers about the
trends and the recent developments of tourism. The articles were presented in
lhe 3rd International conference on Advanced Tourism Economics that was held
nl Lusiada University, in 2009. The conference had 170 participants, being 120
foreigners, from 27 nationalities. We had parallel session with 19 panels. Only
one panel was in Portuguese language, with 8 communications. In total, the
'o nference had 147 comunications, and 139 were in English.
In order to maintain the spirit of the conference, the selected papers of this book
are 14 written in English and 4 in Portuguese.
These papers were evaluated by three blind reviwers and selected to belong to
this book, due to its quality. Without doubt, other articles had equal high
quality level, but the limit of pages was our major constraint, althought this
limit was exceeded.
This book is organized in seven parts, such as is shown in Figure 1. Parts I and
II have two articles, one is written in Portuguese and one in English. Part III has
three articles, being two in Portuguese and one in English. Parts IV, V, VI and
VII have all the articles written in English.
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