Innovation in tourism - Creating customer value Creative forces of the market Reinforcing the mechanisms of innovation Implementation of new technologies Competitive advantage of industries and destinations Facilitating structural changes Rejuvenating destinations Engine of growth Economic...

Rapid progress in information and communication technologies stirs up modern economies as do the liberalisation and deregulation of traditional network-based industries. These developments pose new challenges for economic theory and economic policy. Thus, there is a growing body of both...

The conference objective is to discuss recent scientific contributions on the economics of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the economics of ICT industries. Theoretical, empirical, experimental and policy-oriented contributions are welcome. Topics of Interest ICT and the...

The IBC Forum 2005 will focus on the - International Competitiveness of Life Sciences Locations and Metropolitan Regions - Sustainable Development in Regions - Tourism: Destination Benchmarking As an input to the discussions BAK will present the most recent research results based on the updated...

Possible topics: - Liberalization - Electronic competition to mail and express carriers labor economics - Service quality, reliability and pricing issues - Transition from monopoly to competition - Productivity issues - Financial viability and agency problems - Privatization, and...

The travel and tourism industry accounts for $4.4 trillion of economic activity worldwide. Given the current changing political and economic climate how sustainable is this situation? Can the industry continue to grow in the face of climate change and global terrorism? Is there still untapped...