Tourism Planning and Development in Western Europe

Konstantinos Andriotis (Edited By) Konstantinos Andriotis is a Professor in Tourism at Middlesex University London. He holds a PhD in Tourism Development and Planning (Bournemouth University, 2000) and a Post Doc in Tourism Marketing (Hellenic Open University, 2006). He edits the 'International Journal of Tourism Policy', the 'Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism' and the CABI Regional Tourism Series. He has an h-index of 32 and more than 4500 citations. He was listed in the Stanford University list of top 2 per cent of scientists in the World. His research interests include tourism development and planning, alternative forms of tourism, tourism experience and degrowth.Carla Pinto Cardoso (Edited By) Carla Pinto Cardoso holds a PhD in Economics of Tourism at Bournemouth University (UK) and is the Coordinator of the Tourism and Heritage Department in the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Portuguese Catholic University, located in Braga, Portugal, where she also teaches in the tourism and economic fields. She is member of the R&D Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies and her research and publications interests include tourism impacts, planning as well as strategic management. Whilst working as senior lecturer and department coordinator she supervised a number of undergraduate projects, master dissertations and thesis. She has published in a number of Journals and participated and organized several conferences. She is also working as senior tourism consultant, being involved in national and international tourism projects.Dimitrios Stylidis (Edited By) Dimitrios Stylidis, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Tourism Marketing at the University of Crete, Greece. Prior to this, he was Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Research Cluster Leader at Middlesex University London, and a Postdoc Researcher and Visiting Lecturer at the Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Dimitrios holds an MSc and PhD in tourism from the University of Surrey, U.K. His research interests include place image and marketing, tourist destination image and behaviour, tourism impacts and sustainable development. His work has been published in several journals including Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, and Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

• Chapter 1: Informed Developments for a Sustainable Community: An English Case Study in Renewal and Rejuvenation. Peter Wiltshier. Chapter 2: Foreign Tourists Reaching Italy: Transport Mode Choice and Seasonality. Anna Serena Vergori. Chapter 3: Malta’s Tourism Development: Themes, Impacts, Challenges, Patterns and Contrasts: Pointers for a Framework for Short/Long-term Tourism Development. Marie Louise Mangion. Chapter 4: Industrial Tourism in Seville, Spain. Ana M. Domínguez-Quintero and Sonia Ancio-Alcón. Chapter 5: Salt pans: An Indissociable Natural And Cultural Heritage – A Comparative Study Between Aveiro, Portugal and Guérande, France. Margarida Ferreira da Silva, Helena Albuquerque, Filomena Martins and Gildas Buron. Chapter 6: Strategic Considerations for Sustainable Tourism Development of the Micro-Destination East Belgium. Laura Rauschen, Anastasia Traskevich and Martin Fontanari. Chapter 7: Perceived Impacts of Urban Tourism on Host Communities: Comparing Milan and Porto. Valeria Fuse and Elisabeth Kastenholz. Chapter 8: Sociocultural Dimension of Destination Resilience and Implications for Innovative Product Design in Experimental Destinations in Germany, Italy and Ireland. Valeria Diaferia, Anastasia Traskevich and Martin Fontanari. Chapter 9: Planning for a More Sustainable Tourism? A Pan-Nordic Analysis of Regional Tourism Strategies for Rural Areas. Rikke Brandt Broegaard, Ágúst Bogason and Anna Karlsdóttir

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