This book contains 21 chapters contributed by active researchers from several countries including Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The book chapters have been divided into five sections. The first section on...

This book examines the political order and the issues, processes and approaches in applying governance insights to tourist destinations. The book consists of 16 chapters presented in three parts. Part I introduces the reader to the issues and considerations of tourist destination governance. The...

This book presents the depth of the new wave of agritourism apparent around the world. This book consists of four parts. The first section is an introduction to the economics of agritourism; it introduces the role of organization, management, logistics, safety, marketing, finance, economics and...

This chapter considers the role of the internet as a cross-cultural communication and marketing tool in tourism. It reviews the results of two studies conducted in 2002 to determine how European destinations respond to the opportunity offered by the internet. The first study examined the...

This chapter presents the mycobiota associated with Heracleum mantegazzianum and related species in the native range (Western Caucasus region within the Russian Federation) and in the invaded range (European range (Denmark, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Latvia)) based on literature,...

A definition for sustainable tourism is sought. Next, a discussion is presented of how tourism and the environment may develop in Europe, how tourist organizations should react, and the benefits that may from tourism ecolabels are described. The following issues are addressed: tourism within the...

This chapter explores the consequences of soil biodiversity in relation to soil organic matter dynamics, and includes 5 subchapters dealing with how catabolic diversity measurements can indicate changes in the quality of soil microbial communities that can signal adverse effect of land use on...