The seasonality of demand in tourism is discussed, highlighting its impact on businesses, the factors that explain seasonality, its benefits for the environment and local residents, and the various efforts introduced at many tourist destinations to reduce seasonality.

This chapter offers an introduction to lodging establishments or tourist accommodation. It discusses different classifications of accommodation: according to structure, business format, star rating, and market segment. An overview of operations management in lodging establishments is also...

This chapter looks at how tourist attractions have been defined by some authors, and discusses various categorizations of tourist attractions as well as the different paths through which attractions are planned and developed.

Tourism infrastructure consists of the facilities that tourists use when they leave their homes, reach their destinations and return. Two types of infrastructure are discussed: basic infrastructure; and tourism-specific infrastructure.

This chapter presents an outline of the main tourism facilities and services, which consist of transport, lodging, food and beverages, recreation and entertainment, and others.

This chapter defines three categories of tourism supply (tourist attractions, tourist facilities and services, and tourism-supporting infrastructure), and describes a number of characteristics of tourism supply such as its perishability, intangibility, rigidity, heterogeneity and others.

Prideaux's resort-development model, called the resort development spectrum, is discussed. Although Prideaux's model has similarities to Butler's model, Prideaux's model considers the issue of development from an economic perspective. It is indicated that Prideaux's model has limitations when...

The five stages of Butler's tourism destination life cycle model are explained as well as the possible scenarios after these five stages. Similar concepts proposed by Fuster, years before the publication of Butler's model, are also discussed. Attempts to improve Butler's model and some criticisms...

This chapter explains what resorts are, and presents an overview of studies on their evolution and structure as well as on topics such as the motivation of resort visitors and the environmental and socio-cultural sustainability of resorts.

This chapter discusses the concept of tourism destination image, pointing out that image is not the same as brand. It also considers how image is formed and how it can be changed by changing the destination's marketing strategy.