The Tourist Review: Volume 52 Issue 3

Senior citizens' tourism: A simple approach to determine their future travel behaviour

Martin Lohmann, Guido Merzbach

There is no doubt: the “Senior Citizens Market” is growing all over Europe. Thus, designing specific marketing strategies and adapting the tourist product to the prospective needs…

A survey of Austria's tourist industry

Egon Smeral

In a study commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Austrian Institute of Economic Research conducted a written survey of the Austrian hotel industry (hotels…

Holiday decision‐making in the Netherlands; Selection processes with regard to domestic and foreign holiday destination

Jac Zom, Winny van Hal

Ever since the rise of tourism, the holiday behavior of the Dutch has been subjected to certain changes inherent to various general societal developments. The assumption is…

Long‐haul tourism 2005: Delphi study

Hansruedi Mller

Tourism to distant countries is booming, as many statistics confirm. And the forecasts indicate that long‐haul tourism, with its advantages and disadvantages for travellers and…

Tourism quality plan: An effective tourism policy tool

Rik De Keyser, Norbert Vanhove

The starting‐point of this article is that it will be essential to give quality a crucial function in the tourism policy of the future. The philosophy of quality management is…

Der strukturwandel im alpinen tourismus und daraus resultierende anpassungsprobleme der tourismusunternehmen

Klaus Weiermair, J.W. Auer

Post‐war tourism in the Swiss Alps developed in four distinct phases. The pioneering phase (1955 – 65) was led by small family businesses of an old‐fashioned patriarchal stamp…