Tourism Review: Volume 63 Issue 4

Information sources available to visitors: a segmentation analysis

Nazmi Kozak, Metin Kozak

The purpose of this study is to investigate the information search behavior of visitors according to various socio‐demographic and travel‐related variables regarded as a criterion…

Does one culture all think the same? An investigation of destination image perceptions from several origins

Glenn McCartney

The purpose of this paper is primarily to examine the impact of cultural background on image formation by looking at Macao's regional tourism destination image perceptions by its…

An empirical assessment of owner‐manager motives in the B&B and vacation home sector

Markus Schuckert, Mike Peters, Beate Fessler

The aim of this paper is to analyse the motives and the socio‐economic profile of bed and breakfast (B&B) and vacation home owners in the tourism industry.

Strategic positioning and performance of winter destinations

Ruggero Sainaghi

This paper seeks to demonstrate the critical importance of the destination's decisions made in relation to market positioning in understanding the competitive performance achieved…

Note from the publisher

Vicky Williams

Editorial

Christian Laesser, Thomas Bieger

59th AIEST Conference 2009, Savonlinna (Finland), 23-27 August 2009