@article{839183,
      recid = {839183},
      author = {Romão, João,},
      title = {Tourism, Territory and Sustainable Development :  Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Applications in Japan  and Europe /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {"Welfare rise, spatial mobility, and global information  and communication channels (in particular, social media)  have prompted the emergence of a specific booming and  rapidly growing mobility industry all over the world,  namely tourism. The tourist sector (including recreation  and leisure activities) has turned into a complex  contemporaneous socio-economic and geographic phenomenon,  with a multiplicity of travel motives (e.g., entertainment,  culture, relaxed life style, wellness, nature, etc.) and  with a wide variety of impacts (e.g., urban- and  regional-economic effects, crowding phenomena,  environmental decay, etc.). Time has now come to offer a  synthesis of the analytical apparatus in tourism research,  with particular attention for system-wide, socio-economic  and environmental dimensions of this important global  industry. Tourism has in the past been a largely neglected  field in regional science research. And therefore, it is  laudable that João Romão has taken the decision to compose  a systematically designed and well crafted monograph on the  socio-economic, environmental and spatial dimensions of  modern tourism. It offers a wealth of analytical insights  and quantitative research tools for advanced tourism  studies. It also fills an important gap in the current  regional science literature. Peter Nijkamp, Tinbergen  Institute, Amsterdam"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/839183},
}