Tourism Management, Marketing, and Development. Performance, Strategies, and Sustainability

This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research in tourism management, by including 12 chapters from a diverse group of international academics. More specifically, the volume displays three key distinctive features. First, it recognizes the relevance of tourism as a major economic driver, especially during periods of economic crisis. Second, it contributes to the advancement of managerial knowledge and practice in the fast-growing tourism sector, by addressing a wide range of research questions with a specific focus on the role of performance and strategies at the destination and company level, and sustainability. Third and last, the volume is the outcome of the collective intellectual efforts of a number of international scholars, with dissimilar geographical roots and backgrounds. They cultivate original research on tourism management from a variety of theoretical perspectives, by adopting different epistemological paradigms and research methodologies or techniques, and multiple methods (theory building, experimental, and inductive case-based inquiries)