The Tourist Review: Volume 47 Issue 2

Modelling AIEST Congress attendance

Stephen F. Witt, Mireille Darius, Alan M. Sykes

Considerable attention has been devoted in the tourism literature to the construction and estimation of models explaining the demand for tourism (for a comprehensive review of…

Eurostyles and socio‐targets as guest segments: Selected findings a brief outline of the eurostyles typology

Josef Mazanec, Andreas Zins

The EUROSTYLE system represents a multinational lifestyle approach that has been developed since 1972 by the French enterprise Centre de Communication Avanc) (CCA) of the…

Spatial cognition and the choice of destination: A note on the preparation of a research program

Lars Nyberg

This project is part of a larger research program called The determinants of tourism, which is under way at Östersund university. The main ambition is to have researchers…

The distinction between short and long holidays

Hanspeter Schmidhauser

Since their beginning after World War II almost all holiday‐surveys — worldwide — make the classical distinction between

Motives for holiday travel

Jan Vidar Haukeland

The discussion in the paper is based on empirical data from the latest Norwegian holiday survey (carried out in 1991). In previous holiday surveys the main task has been, in…

The influence of tourism on the quality of life in the evaluation of the inhabitants in the Alps

Karl Socher

The importance of an evaluation of tourism stems from the fact that it is an important factor for tourism policy in a democracy. The Swiss as well as the Tyrolean concept for…

Systems approach in tourism: The third generation of the St. Gallen Management Concept

C. Kaspar, o lic.

The third and latest generation of the St. Gallen Management Concept represents an attempt to extend logically the ‘system oriented science of business and industrial management’…