This chapter first looks at changes in volumes and structures of international travel in Slovakia in the period 1989-2004 and compares these with developments in other East Central European countries. Second, it considers the importance of selected travel motives on the volume and structure of...

This chapter presents the impacts that EU accession is bringing to the development of the tourism sector in Slovenia and especially to the development of Slovenia as a tourism destination brand.

This chapter first documents foreign tourism development in Central Europe, with a focus on Austrian tourism relations with Central and Eastern Europe. It then discusses perspectives of tourism development in Central and Eastern Europe after EU enlargement from the receiving as well as from the...

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 analyses the current situation of the EU from an economic, social and cultural perspective, focusing on the implications of enlargement for tourism and tourism education. Some emphasis is placed on the concepts of citizenship and identity. The chapter focuses to a great extent on the...

This chapter addresses the most critical issues and implications of EU enlargement for Croatian tourism over the next decade. The first part of the chapter gives a structuralist account of likely and future tourism development. The second part deconstructs the economic (mostly statistical)...

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 considers the role of officially sponsored tourism promotion, produced during the mid and late 1990s, in presenting a new identity for Romania. In particular, it examines the efforts to draw a line under the tyranny of Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime (and the political and economic...

This chapter examines: (i) Bulgaria's resource base and the types and spatial structure of tourism in the country; (ii) Bulgaria's tourism during the post-communist transition; (iii) the transformation trends in Bulgarian tourism; (iv) the tourism infrastructure and markets; and (v) quality issues...

This chapter concludes a book that looks into the tourism implications of accession for the EU's most recent member states, those countries that still wish to join, and those that are directly or indirectly affected by EU enlargement. One key conclusion is that it is difficult to generalize about...