Tourism Management, Marketing, and Development. Volume I: The Importance of Networks and ICTs

This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research in today’s tourism management, by including 12 chapters from a diverse international group of academics. More specifically the volume displays three key distinctive features: 1. recognizes the relevance of tourism and tourism activities as major economic drivers; 2. contributes to the advancement of managerial knowledge and practice in the fast growing tourism sector, trying to answer a wide range of research questions with a specific focus on the role of physical and digital networks and ICTs; 3. is the outcome of the collective intellectual efforts of a number of international scholars, with dissimilar geographical roots and back- grounds. They cultivate original research on tourism management from a variety of theoretical perspectives (economic, managerial), by adopting different epistemological paradigms and research methodologies or techniques, and multiple methods (theory building, experimental and inductive case-based inquiries).