Overview
- Provides a comprehensive analysis of the relations between territorial capital, tourism competitiveness, and their impacts on regional sustainable development
- Presents an innovative theoretical framework, integrating evolutionary economic geography, endogenous growth models, and spatial econometrics into tourism studies
- Systematizes theoretical contributions complemented by empirical analysis in different parts of Japan and Europe, with a view on policy recommendations
Part of the book series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives (NFRSASIPER, volume 28)
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Welfare rise, spatial mobility, and global information and communication channels (in particular, social media) have prompted the emergence of a specific booming and rapidly growing mobility industry all over the world, namely tourism. The tourist sector (including recreation and leisure activities) has turned into a complex contemporaneous socio-economic and geographic phenomenon, with a multiplicity of travel motives (e.g., entertainment, culture, relaxed life style, wellness, nature, etc.) and with a wide variety of impacts (e.g., urban- and regional-economic effects, crowding phenomena, environmental decay, etc.).
Time has now come to offer a synthesis of the analytical apparatus in tourism research, with particular attention for system-wide, socio-economic and environmental dimensions of this important global industry. Tourism has in the past been a largely neglected field in regional science research. And therefore, it is laudable that João Romão has taken the decision to compose a systematically designed and well crafted monograph on the socio-economic, environmental and spatial dimensions of modern tourism. It offers a wealth of analytical insights and quantitative research tools for advanced tourism studies. It also fills an important gap in the current regional science literature.
Peter Nijkamp, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam
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Book Title: Tourism, Territory and Sustainable Development
Book Subtitle: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Applications in Japan and Europe
Authors: João Romão
Series Title: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0426-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0425-5Published: 24 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4414-5Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0426-2Published: 09 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2199-5974
Series E-ISSN: 2199-5982
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 146
Number of Illustrations: 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Tourism Management, Economy-wide Country Studies, Development Economics