ABSTRACT

Provides practical advice on the use of quantitative techniques used in tourism. Thoroughly revised and updated, the new edition includes new guidelines for domestic and international statistics produced by the World Tourism Organization. The book provides practical tools for both market planning as well as for product assessment, especially regional and environmental planning.

chapter 1|19 pages

An overview of tourism research

chapter 2|22 pages

Defining and describing tourism

chapter 3|22 pages

Collecting data on tourism

chapter 4|31 pages

Understanding the tourist

chapter 5|21 pages

Segmenting the tourism market

chapter 7|24 pages

Selecting a site for business development

chapter 9|46 pages

Describing tourism regions

chapter 10|23 pages

Shadow prices and non-market valuation

chapter 11|30 pages

Impact and evaluation methods