The Tourist Review: Volume 49 Issue 3
Table of contents
Competitiveness of tourist destinations in long distance markets
Eulogio BordasCompetitiveness: The Birth of a New Paradigm. According to conventional economic theory, macroeconomic factors such as the cost of manpower, interest rates, exchange rates and…
Image measurement with self‐organizing maps: A tentative application to Austrian tour operators
Josef A. MazanecImage analysis faces data reduction problems when deriving low‐dimensional image spaces (‘perceptual maps’) from multidimensional profile data. The neurocomputing methodology of…
The competitive situation of tourism in the Caribbean area methodological approach
R. De Keyser, N. VanhoveThe aim of the study on the competitive situation of tourism in the Caribbean area was to analyse the competitive position of tourism in a number of Caribbean destinations. These…
Tourism forecasting: Accuracy comparisons across aggregated/disaggregated data
Christine A. Witt, Stephen F. WittThe purpose of this article is to examine empirically the impact of aggregation on forecasting accuracy; specifically, whether more accurate forecasts are obtained by forecasting…
The trip forecasting models: Theory and the case of Italy
Paolo Costa, Mara ManenteThe TRIP (TouRism International Panel) Forecasting Models (1), the first regarding international tourist departures from each country of origin, the second international tourist…
Tourism and agriculture in alpine regions
Karl Socher, Paul TschurtschenthalerThe paper tries to look into the economic relations between tourism and agriculture. Agriculture is supplying values for the tourism industry directly and indirectly. The direct…
Stratégie pour un produit touristique de calibre international: le québec à l'heure de la compétition planétaire
Antoine SamuelliLongtemps considérés comme des destinations surtout recherchées par les trappeurs, les chercheurs d'or et de minerais précieux, les explorateurs arctiques et les amateurs de…
Die elastizität der tourismusnachfrage unter besonderer berücksichtigung von öko‐elastizität
Tanja MihalicDie Preiselastizität und die Einkommenselastizität der Tourismusnachfrage werden in der Fachiteratur ber Tourismus schon lange diskutiert (Hunziker W., Krapf, K., 1942, Menges…