ABSTRACT
Cities are in transition, under a variety of pressures including demographic trends; changing preferences for city centre or urban living and working locations; and transportation, retailing and tourism developments (Jacobs, 1972; Leontidou, 1990; Soane, 1993). The conglomeration of large numbers of people in a small geographic area, typical of city conditions, imposes significant management and policy problems, not least in terms of the maintenance of their health and economic welfare (Ashton, 1992). Furthermore, cities also rank amongst the cultural treasures of civilisation, they provide entertainment and artistic outlets for the surrounding population, and function as administrative and shopping centres. These attributes, combined with their nodal location in area transport networks (Page, 1995), make many cities and towns magnets for tourists, particularly when they are marketed appropriately (Kotler et al., 1993; Law, 1993). The clustering or honeypotting of tourist resources and tourism complexes, results in the creation of districts in which tourism is the dominant activity (Ashworth and Voogd, 1990; Jansen-Verbeke, 1988).
