
City Tourism 2002
Proceedings of European Cities Tourism's International Conference in Vienna, Austria, 2002
Karl W. Wöber(Editor)
Springer (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 13. June 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 362 pages
978-3-211-83831-0 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of papers presented at the International City Tourism Conference (ICTC) concentrates on future challenges in city tourism research and practices. The papers deal with visitor and tourist behavior in cities, concentration and dispersion effects in city tourism, the effects of event management for cities, various city tourism policy issues, the investigation of success factors for city tourism web sites, and the impact and effectiveness of city tourism facilities and providers. They will enable tourism organizations and researchers to explore innovative methods for serving the tourists of the future.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Vienna
Austria
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
50
50 s/w Abbildungen
43 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
700 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-211-83831-0 (9783211838310)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Concentration and Dispersion Effects in City Tourism: Cities and Their Hinterlands: Competitors or Collaborators for the Visitor Market? (Peter Murphy ); Urban Destinations as Industrial Growth Clusters (Christopher M. Law); Spatial Activity of Tourists in Cities: What Are the Underlying Factors? (Noam Shoval); Visitor and Tourist Behavior in Cities I: Long Haul Travellers: Towards a Framework for the Study of Overseas Visitors' Travel Behaviour in Cities (Karen Thompson, Peter Schofield); Youth and Urban Tourism: A Cross-Cultural Study of European Young Long-Haul Travellers (Aurkene Alzua-Sorzabal, Joseph T. O'Leary, Mercedes Rodriguez); Multi-City Pleasure Trip Patterns: An Analysis of International Travelers to the U.S. (Yeong-Hyeon Hwang, Ulrike Gretzel, Daniel R. Fesenmaier).- Event Management in Cities: The Mission of Event Management Associations (Charles Arcodia, Sacha Reid); The Contribution of Special Events to Destination Brand Equity (Frédéric Dimanche).- Visitor and Tourist Behavior in Cities II: Innovative Concepts and Methodologies: Targeting Novice Visitors in City Tourism by Information Portfolio Segmentation (Andreas H. Zins); A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis of Urban Visitors' Activities (Vicki Eftichiadou); Demand Segmentation in Urban Tourism: Empirical Evidence for the City of Barcelona (Maria Encarnación André Romero, Manuel Artís Ortuño, Jordi Suriñach Caralt).- Heritage and City Tourism: Adaptive Re-use of Old Buildings for Heritage Hotels: Prospects and Challenges in the Malaysian Tourism Industry (Ahmad Sanusi Hassan, Nurwati Badarulzaman, A. Ghafar Ahmad, Badaruddin Mohamed); The Process of Social Transformation Associated with Tourism Development in the World-Heritage City Lijiang, China (Takayoshi Yamamura); Painting the Town Red: The Appeal of Violence to the Modern Tourist (Martin Peacock).- Visitor and Tourist Behavior in Cities III: Designing a Sustainable City Tourism Development Model Using an Importance Performance (IP) Analysis (Sotiris H. Avgoustis, Francis Achana); Comparing European Cities Tourism Guest Surveys: An Intelligent Meta-Analytical Approach (David M. Wagner); The Tourist City: A Time-Space Analysis (Martine C. Middleton).- City Tourism Policy and Management: The Public Private Service Index (PPSI) as the Key to Clarifying Expected Services and Willingness to Pay in the Tourism Destination Management: The Example of Basel Tourism (Hansruedi Mueller); Partnership and Collaboration in Destination Management: The Case of Cambridge (UK) (Robert Maitland); Applying Stakeholder Theory to the Implementation of Sustainable Urban Tourism (Seldjan Timur, Donald Getz).- Visitor and Tourist Behavior in Cities IV: Tourism in Heidelberg: Getting a Picture of the City and Its Visitors (Tim Freytag); Opportunities for the Future Development of Hungarian City Tourism (Marta Bakucz); Tourism, Tourists and Local Residents: Management Implications for the World Heritage City of Bath (Tim Coles,Gareth Shaw).- Cities in Transition - Learning from Experiences I: Transforming the Touristic Image of Geneva from a Leisure to a Business Destination and Its Cultural Implications (Bertrand Lévy, Rafael Matos); Tourism Policies in French Post-2nd-World-War-Reconstructed Cities: Saint-Nazaire, Le Havre and Lorient (Maria Gravari-Barbas); Transformation of Historical Peninsula of Istanbul with Tourism Function (Ebru Kerimoglu).- Information Technology in City Tourism: The Internet and City Tourists: A Study of Preferences for Information Sources in Travel Planning (Ingvar Tjøstheim, Bård Tronvoll); Developing the Use of Viral Marketing in the Context of Web Based Marketing Communications Strategy for City Destinations (Hilary C. Main); Digital Agents for City Tourism (Stefan Poslad, Rainer Malaka, Barbara Schmidt-Belz).- Cities in Transition - Learning from Experiences II: From Urban Tourism Marketing to Integrated Marketing of Places: An Institutional Analysis Based on Case Studies from Switzerland (Thomas Bieger, Roland Scherer); European Cities of Culture: Implications on Tourism (Markus Wiesenhofer, Martin Schwarz); The Evaluation of European Cities' Tourism Offices' Web Sites (Ulrike Bauernfeind, Karl W. Wöber, Arno Scharl, Christian Bauer, Martin Natter, Taudes).- Impact and Effectiveness of City Tourism Facilities and Providers: Walk on the Wild Side: Cultural Encounters, Organisational Tensions and Tourism Potentials of the Entrepreneurial Tour Company (Peter Lugosi); The Impact of Event Tourism on City Renewal (Charles Arcodia, Michelle Whitford); Marketing Strategies for European Museums: An Inter-City Comparison by Means of Advanced Benchmarking Methodologies (Anita Remich)