This chapter examines a tourism-specific conceptual model of destination competitiveness.

This chapter examines the Ritchie/Crouch conceptual model of destination competitiveness and sustainability. This model contains seven components which have been found to play a major role, from both policy and management perspectives, in determining the competitiveness and sustainability of a...

This chapter examines the factors that motivate individuals to choose one particular destination over the myriad other possibilities. When all the complexities of destination choice are stripped away, it is essentially the core resources and attractors that underlie the basic desire to travel to a...

This chapter examines the nature of tourism policy and describes how effective tourism policy, planning and development should be structured, formulated and implemented. The chapter emphasizes that, in all cases, competitiveness and sustainability must be the primary goal of policy and that the...

This chapter examines the ways by which a destination should ensure its economic profitability while avoiding degradation of the factors that have created its competitive position.

This chapter presents an introductory discussion on the dimensions of psychology and on the consumer psychology of tourism, hospitality and leisure, and concludes by presenting an overview of the book.

This book focuses on consumer behaviour in the context of tourism, hospitality and leisure. It comprises of 8 parts that discuss: attitudes, emotions and information processing; motivation and learning; consumption systems; decision and choice; experience and satisfaction; market segmentation;...

This study investigates tourist consumer behaviour in the Algarve, Portugal, with particular emphasis on their perceptions and motivations. A theoretical framework is developed, which assumes a relationship between pre-decision, decision and post-purchasing evaluation, (i.e. the main phases of the...

This chapter reports some preliminary results from a study which has sought to model the convention site selection choice process using data derived from a survey of 86 meeting planners in Australia. It finds that, although the characteristics of the meeting facilities are particularly important,...

This chapter presents an overview of the space tourism industry and discusses the categories of space tourism, the historical and cultural background to space tourism, the space tourism experience, problems associated with space tourism, the potential market for space tourism, and the future of...