Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development

Edited by Rinaldo Brau, University of Cagliari and CRENoS, Italy, Alessandro Lanza, Executive Director, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy and Stefano Usai, University of Cagliari and CRENoS, Italy

• Contents:IntroductionPART I: MODELLING TOURISM DEVELOPMENT1. Tourism, Growth and Pollution AbatementFabio Cerina2. Specialised Trade, Growth Differentials and the Performance ofTourism EconomiesSimone Valente3. Tourism Development and Environmental Quality: Long-Run Effectsof Monopoly PowerSauveur Giannoni and Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis4. The Economics of Local Tourist SystemsGuido Candela, Paolo Figini and Antonello E. Scorcu 5. Inbound Tourism and Internal Migration in a Developing EconomyJean-Jacques Nowak and Mondher Sahli6. Tourism, Jobs, Capital Accumulation and the Economy: A DynamicAnalysisChi-Chur Chao, Bharat R. Hazari, Jean-Pierre Laffargue,Pasquale M. Sgrò and Eden S.H. Yu PART II: MEASURING AND ASSESSING THE ECONOMICSUSTAINABILITY OF TOURISM7. The Volatility of Growth and Tourism EarningsAnil Markandya and Suzette Pedroso-Galinato8. Managing Value-at-Risk in Daily Tourist Tax Revenues for theMaldivesMichael McAleer, Riaz Shareef and Bernardo da Veiga9. Uncovering the Macrostructure of Tourists’ Preferences: a ChoiceExperiment Analysis of Tourism Demand to SardiniaRinaldo Brau and Davide Cao10. Linking Environmental Quality Changes and Tourism Demandwith the Repeat Visits MethodSophie Avila-Foucat and Juan L. Eugenio-Martin11. Social Carrying Capacity of Mass Tourist Sites: Theoretical andPractical Issues about its MeasurementSilva Marzetti Dall’Aste Brandolini and Renzo Mosetti ConclusionIndex

'An exceptionally well informed and meticulous scholarly analysis of the source of tourism as both a boon to and a bane upon the economies of developing nations. . . highly recommended for college library collections and personal reading lists on the subject of international economics in general, and the economic impact of tourism in particular.'