Tourism Review: Volume 70 Issue 4

Developments in understanding tourism policy

David Airey

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the current stage of the development of the study of tourism policy and some of the key issues that have come in for attention.

In future, I would love to see … a reflection on the state of quantitative tourism research

Sara Dolnicar

– This paper reflects on the state of quantitative tourism research.

Tourism policy in advanced economies: how can it be effective and efficient?

Peter Keller

This paper aims to outline the theoretical background of tourism policy, taking into account the political changes in advanced economies. It proposes presenting a new definition…

Myths of top tourism countries, tourism contribution and competitiveness

Tanja Mihalic, Julio Aramberri

This paper aims to deal with the myths of tourism in regard to the tourism available data and their mythical interpretation in relation to top tourism countries, tourism economic…

Measuring the economic impact of tourism: the case of Lower and Upper Austria

Egon Smeral

This study aims to demonstrate that the information content of a regional tourism satellite account (RTSA) is a very complex phenomenon and the complete impact of tourism is…

Governing networks in tourism: what have we achieved, what is still to be done and learned?

Michael Volgger, Harald Pechlaner

Networks and networking are ubiquitous concepts in tourism, their importance appreciated by scholars and practitioners. Tourism research has developed elaborate methods and…

Editorial

Christian Laesser