Managing tourism destinations / edited by Andreas Papatheodorou.

"An Elgar reference collection."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Why people travel to different places / Andreas Papatheodorou -- 2. Travel life cycle / Martin Oppermann -- 3. The effect of market access on destination choice / Bob McKercher -- 4. Influence of cognitive distance in vacation choice / Paul K. Ankomah, John L. Crompton and Dwayne Baker -- 5. Movie induced tourism / Roger Riley, Dwayne Baker and Carlton S. Van Doren -- 6. A model of destination image formation / Seyhmus Baloglu and Ken W. McCleary -- 7. Design of destination and attraction-specific brochures / Donald Getz and Lisa Sailor -- 8. Evaluating the effectiveness of travel trade shows and other tourism sales-promotion techniques / Abraham Pizam -- 9. State slogans : the case of the missing USP / John Richardson and Judy Cohen -- 10. Destination evaluation and vacation preferences / Glenn F. Ross -- 11. Rethinking collaboration and partnership : a public policy perspective / C. Michael Hall -- 12. Equity, management, power sharing and sustainability - issues of the "new tourism" / Chris Ryan -- 13. Shared decision-making in tourism land use planning / Peter W. Williams, Robert W. Penrose and Suzanne Hawkes -- 14. The development and implementation of national tourism policies / Tom Baum -- 15. Total quality, human resource management and tourism / C. A. Hope and A. P. Muhlemann -- 16. Making mindful managers : evaluating methods for teaching problem solving skills for tourism management / Gianna Moscardo -- 17. Positioning : the example of the lower Rio Grande Valley in the winter long stay destination market / John L. Crompton, Paul C. Fakeye and Chi-Chuan Lue -- 18. Destination country portfolio analysis : the evaluation of national tourism destination marketing programs revisited / Egon Smeral and Stephen F. Witt -- 19. Foreign tourism investment : motivation and impact / Larry Dwyer and Peter Forsyth -- 20. TSAs and the WTTC/WEFA methodology : different satellites or different planets? / Stephen L. J. Smith and David Wilton -- 21. Strategic planning before and after a mega-event / Bill Bramwell -- 22. Towards a framework for tourism disaster management / Bill Faulkner -- 23. Tourism, terrorism, and political instability / Sevil F. Sonmez -- 24. Tourism crisis management : US response to September 11 / Adam Blake and M. Thea Sinclair -- 25. Planning for peace : the role of tourism in the aftermath of violence / Caroline Anson -- 26. Political instability, war, and tourism in Cyprus : effects, management, and prospects for recovery / Dimitri Ioannides and Yiorgos Apostolopoulos -- 27. Strategic use of information technologies in the tourism industry / Dimitrios Buhalis -- 28. A framework for an industry supported destination marketing information system / Robin J. B. Ritchie and J. R. Brent Ritchie -- 29. Financial management in tourism : a destination perspective / Lorn R. Sheehan and J. R. Brent Ritchie -- 30. Destination marketing organizations' Web site users and nonusers : a comparison of actual visits and revisit intentions / Siu-Ian (Amy) So and Alastair M. Morrison -- 31. The concept of a tourist area cycle of evolution : implications for management of resources / R. W. Butler -- 32. Tourism and regional development : a genetic approach / Douglas G. Pearce -- 33. Oligopoly and the resort cycle in the Bahamas / Keith G. Debbage -- 34. The role of the transport system in destination development / Bruce Prideaux -- 35. Evaluating the worth of investment incentives for tourism development / Stephen R. C. Wanhill -- 36. Resorts in decline - the management response / Chris Cooper -- 37. Factors for success in rural tourism development / Suzanne Wilson, Daniel R. Fesenmaier, Julie Fesenmaier and John C. Van Es -- 38. Tourism promotion and potential in peripheral areas : the Austrian case / Richard Hummelbrunner and Ernst Miglbauer -- 39. Holiday parks : current issues and trends / Richard C. Prentice and Stephen F. Witt -- 40. Resident support for gambling as a tourism development strategy / Richard R. Perdue, Patrick T. Long and Yong Soon Kang -- 41. Socioeconomic impacts of tourism on two Greek isles / Paris Tsartas -- 42. Consequences of resort development : a comparative study / Patty Simpson and Geoffrey Wall -- 43. Redefining ecotourism : the need for a supply-side view / Ercan Sirakaya, Vinod Sasidharan and Sevil Sonmez -- 44. The question of scale in ecotourism : case study of two small ecotour operators in the Mundo Maya region of Central America / Eugene Thomlinson and Donald Getz.