Optimal Tourism Development

• Other Authors: Campos-Soria, Juan A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Economics, finance, business & management; corporate social responsibility; economic; environmental and social responsibility; Internet; hotel services; Spain; healthy architecture; construction materials; environment; radon; underground building; heritage building; real-estate market; tourist housing; territorial sustainability; sustainable tourism; multicriteria assessment; geographical information systems; sustainable destination; destination image; marketing strategies; communication; segmentation; rural development; National Parks; nature tourism; public use; inbound tourism; China; air pollution; PM2.5; gravity model; spatial statistics; spatial clusters; Moran's I; Getis-Ord G (d); LISA; Extremadura; tourist recycling behaviour; environmental barriers; sociodemographic; situational; tourism; spatial analyses; cluster analysis; Ward's method; EU; product innovation model; transformative tourism experience; development process design; core resource identification; tourism product development
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The early days of tourism development had a naïve vision of tourism's impacts on society in terms of economic, social, and environmental benefits. Time has passed, and we have learnt lessons regarding the success and failure of tourism development. Mass tourism development has pros and cons an...