Over the past two decades, through unprecedented levels of prosperity and changing values, luxury tourism has transformed into a new consumption pattern. This book analyzes the topic in detail with contributions from both recognized scientists and prominent executives in the luxury business. It shows how the concept of luxury has shifted from material to immaterial dimensions, and outlines new trends that will shape the luxury market in the future. The content includes carefully selected leading examples from the most important segments of the tourism market, along with concrete recommendations and best practices. Sharing unique insights, the book is a must-read for those working in the tourism industry, as well as lecturers and university students of tourism.

Most up-to-date book on tourism which include sections on global & regional trends, with special emphasis on the countries of each region. They look at arrivals, receipts, hotel capacity & major source markets.

The 2020 edition analyses tourism performance and policy trends across 51 OECD countries and partner economies. It highlights the need for coherent and comprehensive approaches to tourism policy making, and the significance of the tourism economy, with data covering domestic, inbound and outbound tourism, enterprises and employment, and internal tourism consumption.

This book focuses on tourism sectors and models the latest trends in tourism activity while providing a new vision for contemporary tourism economy. Tourism is a sector confronting new challenges for advanced and developing economies. Despite global challenges, tourism continues to be a dynamic sector stimulating social and economic development. Moreover, many scientific challenges are identified in order to model and explain countries tourism sectors, regional and local conditions of tourism and territories sustainability. In addition, a set of models is provided in this book, contributing to a new vision for contemporary tourism economies, showing new tendencies in this sector and following a scientific approach concerning new policy design aimed at understanding and explaining a new philosophy carried out by governments in terms of the management of the tourism sector. On the other hand, the private sector of economic business opportunities considering the perspectives of tourism are also considered. This book serves as an excellent guide for agents either in public or private sector buildings on the associated scientific methodologies concerning their strategic planning. Therefore, the aim of the present book is to provide some contribution to the areas highlighted above.

This is one of a series of six regional reports by the World Tourism Organization which consider trends in international tourism. The focus is on in-bound tourism. This report is divided into three sections: an overview of developments in the tourism market in Asia; a subregional analysis of tourism performance; and an indepth look at tourism trends within each country. The report covers the countries of South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific region (including Australia and New Zealand). The statistics have been supplied by the individual countries and comparability is not assured due to variations in data collection methods. In 2000 the region registered a growth rate of 14.5% with 118.3 million arrivals.

This book is the first attempt to provide a global comprehensive review and scholarly investigation into Drive Tourism which is a popular and growing form of tourism.