This chapter examines tourism policy and planning documents of alpine, Arctic and subarctic regions in terms of: (i) the challenges and trends in European winter tourism; (ii) the planned regional responses to those challenges and trends; and (iii) the future of European winter tourism from a...

This book aims to update the last volume, Disappearing Destinations (2011), and presents new cases that discuss current threats and consequences of climate change predictions on coastal tourism destinations. In this context, predicted changes and implications for management and policy at such...

Nature-based tourism is a rapidly growing industry sector providing new sources of livelihood for rural areas to diversify the traditional economies. Although innovativeness is an important element in the competitiveness of companies, the level of innovations in nature tourism and recreation...

This chapter provides an analysis of social tourism provision for low-income groups, focusing on the social and economic benefits of such provision. It begins by defining social tourism and discusses issues in relation to holiday participation, poverty and social exclusion. A number of examples of...

This chapter places the implications of the latest EU enlargement into a wider international context. Focus is placed upon potential impacts with respect to changes in tourism flows, but, just as significantly, attention is given to broader policy implications of enlargement for cognate policy...

This chapter first discusses the importance of tourism to the Turkish economy and describes the country's principal tourism resources and attractions by region. It then provides a brief account of the likely impacts both of EU enlargement and of Turkey's EU accession on Turkey's tourist industry....

This chapter analyses changes in tourism in Malta over the past three decades and the actions adopted by Maltese tourism authorities to reposition the Maltese islands. In doing so, it highlights the difficulties encountered when operating in an environment of increased competition, limited...

This chapter provides examples of the EU's involvement in tourism and discusses potential areas of involvement as these have been suggested in the tourism literature and were identified by institutional stakeholders at the supranational level. It is indicated that an implicit policy created by the...

This chapter first describes the evolution of the tourism industry in Estonia from the Soviet era down to the transition era (1991-94) and then to the period of EU accession (1995-2003). It then introduces the Estonian National Tourism Development Plan 2002-05 and 'Brand Estonia', and describes...

The major findings of the research conducted on the tourism and leisure behaviour of older adults in the western world are presented, including suggestions for future research for academics and recommendations for government policymakers.