Intro
Foreword
Preface
Contents
Introduction
1 Worlds Collide: Regional Science and Tourism Research
2 Structural Changes and Tourism
3 Regional Science and Tourism
4 Conclusion
References
Firms in the Tourism Industry
Spatial Effects in Regional Tourism Firm Births and Deaths
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 Data and Methods
3.1 Data
3.2 Measures of Agglomeration
3.3 Control Variables
3.4 Methods
3.5 Results
4 Conclusions and Discussion
References

Microgeography of Restaurants: Sub-City Analysis of Restaurant Location and Colocation Using Swedish Geo-Coded Data
1 Introduction
2 Restaurant Location and Colocation
2.1 Demand
2.2 Colocation and Clustering
3 Data and Empirical Design
3.1 Data and Geographical Aggregation
3.2 Variables
3.3 Method
4 Results: Microgeography of Restaurants
5 Concluding Remarks
Appendix
References
Firm Demography in the Accommodation Industry. Evidence from Italian Insular Regions
1 Introduction
2 Related Literature
3 Data and Methods
4 Empirical Findings

5 Concluding Remarks
References
The Importance of the Hospitality Sector in Integrating Foreign-Born Individuals in Sweden
1 Introduction
2 Foreign Born in the Hospitality Sector, Previous Studies
3 Background on the Hospitality Industry in Sweden
4 Data and Regional Categories
5 Method and Variables
6 Empirical Findings
7 Conclusions
References
Temporal and Spatial Perspectives in the Analysis of Tourism
The Role of Air Transport in Tourism Market Access: A Framework for Capturing Spatial, Temporal and Industry Variability in Air Traffic Flows

1 Introduction
2 Relationship Between Air Transport and Tourism
3 Framework for Analysis of Air Traffic Flows
4 Application to Global Region Air Traffic
5 Implications for Tourism
6 Conclusions and Recommendations
References
Tourism Seasonality Across Markets
1 Introduction
2 Measuring Tourism Seasonal Concentration
3 Decompositions Across Markets
4 Regional Perspective
5 A Case Study: Seasonal Concentration of Hotel Demand in Andalucía
6 Conclusions
References

Using a Qualitative Science Approach to Reveal the Tourism Potential of a Story from History: Where Regional Science Meets Heritage-Based Tourism
1 Introduction
2 Background
2.1 Systemic Interaction
2.2 Epistemological Pluralism
2.3 The "Raw Materials of Evidence" and Spatial Referencing
3 Case Study
3.1 Background to Telling Stories Through Tourism
3.2 Methodology
3.3 Background to the Story: Markers of the Significance of the Ned Kelly Story
3.4 The Evidence
3.5 Spatial Patterns
4 Conclusion
References