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Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2007

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Editors:
  1. Roland Conrady

    1. University of Applied Sciences, Worms, Germany

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  2. Martin Buck

    1. ITB, Berlin, Germany

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  • Latest trends in all relevant areas of global tourism, such as aviation, hospitality, business travel, destination management, travel technology, travel behavior
  • Results from the renowned ITB Convention Market Trends and Innovations

Part of the book series: Trends and Issues in Global Tourism (TIGT)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
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  2. Mega trends and their impact on the tourism industry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Demographic change and its impact on the travel industry: Oldies — nothing but goldies?

      • Achim Schröder, Torsten Widmann
      Pages 3-17

    3. Eve-olution: Women’s rising power in travel decisions

      • Diana Jaffé
      Pages 19-31

    4. Polarization of markets: Luxury and budget hotels

      • Maria Pütz-Willems
      Pages 33-40

    5. Smart shopping in the European low cost flight market

      • Gerhild Abler, Michael Ehlting
      Pages 41-49

  3. Aviation management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. The global phenomenon of “low cost” carrier growth

      • Adrian von Dörnberg
      Pages 53-60

    3. Consolidation in the airline business

      • Jens Flottau
      Pages 61-68

    4. Effectively planning and managing European airport capacity

      • Jürgen Ringbeck
      Pages 69-79

  4. Destination management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. FIFA World Cup 2006 and its legacy on tourism

      • Holger Preuss
      Pages 83-102

    3. Traveling to a shopping adventure

      • Werner Friedrich
      Pages 103-119

    4. Alpine destination life cycles: Challenges and implications

      • Markus Schuckert, Claudia Möller, Klaus Weiermair
      Pages 121-136

  5. Marketing and sales management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Commission systems in tourism

      • Georg Tacke, Claudia Fichtner
      Pages 139-154

    3. New stationary distribution channels for tourism

      • Martin Buck
      Pages 155-161

  6. Travel technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Travel technology in the era of Web 2.0

      • Roland Conrady
      Pages 165-184

    3. Website accessibility in the cruise market

      • Kerstin Markus, Rainer Hartmann
      Pages 185-200
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About this book

As other industries, the global travel and tourism industry has been facing - mense challenges and highly visible upheaval since the beginning of the new m- lennium. The International Tourism Exchange ITB Berlin, the world’s leading travel trade fair, aims at pinpointing the most important challenges, identifying the trends and offering a platform to solve pressing problems. The ITB Convention Market Trends & Innovations has developed into a center of excellence and a driving force for the global travel and tourism industry, generating a much needed information platform. This compilation unites the highlights of the convention in articles prepared by renowned professionals and scientists from the industry. Readers may benefit from this comprehensive vision of the developments which are shaping the str- ture of the global tourism industry today and in the future. This book is indisp- sable for tourism and travel professionals and well as for academics and students analyzing current global tourism and travel trends. The first chapter takes up the issue of mega trends in society and in the ec- omy and analyzes their effects on the tourism industry. In highly developed co- tries, overwhelming demographical change is underway. Schröder and Widmann demonstrate how tourism businesses should adapt to the aging customer base.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Applied Sciences, Worms, Germany

    Roland Conrady

  • ITB, Berlin, Germany

    Martin Buck

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