Purpose In an age when a tourist’s gaze is more involved in the daily lives of locals, it is evident that traditional food markets are being rediscovered as a space for recreation. Yet, the pressure of tourism development may result in retail gentrification to the point of losing the sense of...

Purpose Understanding the essence of tourism flows is one of the fundamental undertakings of tourism geography research and a key issue behind effective destination management and development. However, thus far, few studies have analysed tourist movement on a national scale. This is due to the...

Research on regional development devotes little attention to socio-economic distinctions within peripheral and core regions, but rather, stresses disparities between regions. The findings of the present study point to the need to reconsider regional development by placing the main emphasis on...

LIPSHITZ G. and RAVEH A. (1998) Socio-economic differences among localities: a new method of multivariate analysis, Reg. Studies 32, 747-757. From a theoretical planning standpoint, this study is one of those that examines the socio-economic differences among localities that make up 'large'...