Introduction

This book provides a number of relevant perspectives within the tourism manage- ment field and brings about fresh empirical evidence of such fast-changing business dynamics as those pertaining to tourism activities. While the scientific body of literature mostly available in the form of journal articles on performance, strategies and sustainability is growing substantially, the books related to tourism have gener- ally dealt with the aforementioned topics by relegating them to a few chapters in standard textbooks. This book instead is a collection of chapters, built upon robust research. As a consequence, it targets a wide range of readers: tourism scholars and academics, practitioners and managers willing to explore new issues and topics in the tourism sector, and students at the undergraduate and graduate level in tourism programs. Courses on tourism management are likely to use most of the materi- als contained in this book as supplementary readings and to provide real examples from tourism around the globe. It is important to notice that the contributions discuss issues for a wide number of countries; so there are no special “geographic” limitations.