Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Historical Development of Network Theories -- Chapter 3. The Network Concept and Tourism -- Part 1. Qualitative Approaches to Tourism Network Analysis -- Chapter 4. Conceptual Tools for Evaluating...

This chapter discusses the emerging network science approach to the study of complex adaptive systems and applies tools derived from statistical physics to the analysis of tourism destinations. The authors provide a brief history of network science and the characteristics of a network as well as...