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Aspects of
Tourism
This book provides a systematic, country-by-country analysis of tourism policy, planning
and organisation in the EU. Its main objective is to explore 21st century policy responses
Aspects of Tourism
to the global challenges shaping tourism planning and organisation systems in the EU. The CHANNEL VIEW
book offers a new critical approach to comparative policy analysis of EU member states and PUBLICATIONS
focuses on six key themes: territory, actors and structures, economics, policy, methods and
techniques and vision. The book is designed primarily for undergraduate and postgraduate
tourism students and researchers.The book will also be useful for industry practitioners who
EUROPEAN
EUROPEAN TOURISM PLANNING
would like to engage in the theoretical principles and the conceptualisation of planning and
AND ORGANISATION SYSTEMS
organisation systems.
“In this ‘must have’ volume, Costa, Panyik and Buhalis lay down the challenges for European tourism
TOURISM PLANNING AND
planning and organisation in the coming years and provide us with the inspiration to tackle them
in concrete and creative ways. This is an excellent compendium of European tourism planning
approaches that is a useful reference for anyone’s book shelf.”
ORGANISATION SYSTEMS
Dianne Dredge, Aalborg University, Denmark
“In providing an introduction to tourism and to the policy, planning and organisation structures of The EU Member States
each of the 27 member states of the European Union, this is an essential work of reference for
anyone wanting to understand European Tourism. It provides an important starting point for scholars,
students and practitioners.”
David Airey, University of Surrey, UK Edited by Carlos Costa, Emese Panyik
and Dimitrios Buhalis
Carlos Costa is Full Professor at the University of Aveiro and Editor of the Journal of Tourism
Edited by Carlos Costa, Emese Panyik
& Development (Revista de Turismo e Desenvolvimento). His main research interests are tourism
planning and management, organisations, networks, gender in tourism and tourism education.
and Dimitrios Buhalis
Emese Panyik is Assistant Professor of Tourism at the Catholic University of Portugal
(UCP), Braga Regional Centre. Her research interests include strategic tourism planning
and management, rural governance, EU tourism policy, local policymaking and partnerships
and host community impacts of tourism.
Dimitrios Buhalis is Professor of eTourism and Director of eTourism Lab at
Bournemouth University. His research focuses on strategic management and marketing,
tourism marketing, technology and eTourism.
Cover image: © Carlos Costa
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Series Editors: Chris Cooper, CHANNEL VIEW
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C. Michael Hall and Dallen J. Timothy Pbk ISBN: 978-1-84541-432-0