This edited collection considers sustainability in the context of destination branding and marketing. Through the presentation of cases and examples, the book provides a comprehensive set of tools and techniques for branding and marketing for sustainable tourism development. Throughout the 20...

This chapter provides practical guidelines to study the incorporation of sustainability into public tourism policies, with an intensive focus on promoting the incorporation of sustainability into tourist's behaviour. The output allows the identification of a set of issues of great interest,...

This book on winter tourism consists of three parts. Part I is addressed to current challenges in winter tourism including regional planning, socio-cultural conditions, climate change and economic challenges. Part II gives an overview of behavioural research in winter tourism. The authors present...

This chapter examines the experiential facets of motorcycling as part of drive tourism in the Arctic, with a focus on northern Norway. It looks at peripheral motorcyclists' motivations and behaviour, and emphasizes safety issues in remote peripheral areas in relation to sustainable motorcycle...

This chapter explores the expenditure and stay behaviour of tourists, and the capacity of these two variables in improving the sustainability of a nature-based destination such as Costa Rica. Two equations explaining the expenditure and stay patterns of international tourists arriving in Costa Rica ...

This chapter presents two case studies involving hiking and camping within Iranian mountain areas, and looks at the constraints experienced during these outdoor activities. The literature on tourism and pro-environmental behaviour and the constraints on environmental behaviours form the basis for...

This concluding chapter summarizes the book's key themes and findings with a view to the future and new opportunities for research as we continue to "demystify" the use and application of theory in tourism studies. Research gaps and opportunities are identified in the following areas: stakeholders, ...

This chapter describes some of the characteristics that are common in food and wine tourists as well as their behaviour; discusses the classification of target groups in this tourism market; and draws up some useful guidelines that food and wine tourists could put into practice to meet the...

This book examines the tourist, in all its varied forms, and consists of 16 chapters presented in four parts. Chapter 1 examines the definition of a tourist, the misconceptions about tourists, types of tourists and distinction between tourists, travellers and visitors. Chapter 2 elucidates tourist...

This chapter examines the interface between sustainable development or sustainability and tourist behavior. Achieving sustainability is a complex problem. There are many strands to the problem. A leading environmentalist describes two interlocking data sets, the first, ecological and the second,...