Tourism, Growth and Sustainability

Rosaria Rita Canale is Full Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Naples “Parthenope”, Department of Business and Economics, Italy.  Her main research interests are international economics, inequality, poverty and financial markets. In the last years she devoted much of her research attention to tourism as an engine of sustainable growth.Rita De Siano is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at University of Naples “Parthenope”, Department of Business and Economics, Italy. Her main research interests relate to tourism sustainability and growth, regional economic resilience and gender role in policy making decision processes. Her expertise is about empirical analyses and spatial econometrics applications.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Tourism Sector Dynamics and the issue of Sustainability.- Chapter 3. Tourism and the environment.- Chapter 4: Tourism and sustainability: some analytical tools.- Chapter 5: Contrasting impacts of tourism expansion.- Chapter 6: Tourism, innovation and sustainability in Europe.