This report provides an analysis of the state of play for tourism in Romania and examines opportunities and challenges … guidance for tourism practitioners, setting out the steps required to establish and operate an effective DMO. It has been … their destinations. The aim is to strengthen tourism structures at local, regional and national levels, so that Romania is …

South Africa has turned towards tourism development to jump-start its weak economy. As tourism is a labour intensive … directly related to tourism. Despite South Africa’s rich and diverse natural and cultural assets, tourism development has been …-haul destination for many large source markets, good accessibility and international openness is key to expand international tourism …

The early days of tourism development had a naïve vision of tourism’s impacts on society in terms of economic, social …, and environmental benefits. Time has passed, and we have learnt lessons regarding the success and failure of tourism … development. Mass tourism development has pros and cons and is not necessarily the optimal development model. Alternative …

; Systems and tools to measure the social, economic, and environmental sustainability of rural tourism; Integration between … public tourism policies and private strategies in the promotion and implementation of sustainable practices; Policies for … promoting public participation in the planning and development of sustainable rural tourism; The impacts of tourism on …

This paper is the first to apply an econometric shift-share model to tourism. The approach allows us to isolate the … does not share the caveats of the conventional shift-share approach. Our application to regional tourism in Austria reveals … host regions. And third, performance appears uncorrelated with tourism intensity of a region. Thus, from a policy and …