Tourism economics is partly based on established principles from the economics discipline, but it also incorporates elements from sociology, psychology, organization theory and ecology. It has over the years turned into an appealing multi-disciplinary oriented approach to the understanding of...

The assessment of local, regional or national impacts of an influx of tourists – of different kind and origin – has in recent years become a new challenge for economics research in the tourism sector. There is a clear need to develop solid methodologies through which the socio-economic...

Alvaro Matias • Peter Nijkamp • Manuela Sarmento Editors Advances in Tourism Economics New Developments Physica-Verlag A Springer Company Contents 1 Research Needs on the Tourist Nexus 1 Alvaro Matias, Peter Nijkamp, and Manuela...