The Tourist Review: Volume 55 Issue 2

Visitor and mobility management in tourism destinations: A cross analysis of strategies, projects and practices

M. Manente, V. Minghetti, E. Celotto

Tourism and transport represent two sides of the same management process, especially in tourism destinations characterised by a consistent or a rising volume of visitor flows.

Wellness‐Tourismus: Eine analyse des schweizer marktes und konsequenzen für die hotellerie

Hansruedi Müller, Eveline Lanz Kaufmann

The term wellness is widely used in Swiss tourism. The principal observations regarding the wellness industry concern an expanding supply of and an insufficiently researched…

Reforming destination management organisations and financing

Karl Socher

The fast changes of the tourism markets make it necessary to adapt destination management organisations, their functions and financing. The paper tries to develop a model for an…

Know‐how and qualification gaps in the tourism industry: The case of alpine tourism in Austria

Klaus Weiermair

The paper is concerned with the tourism industry's increased demand for better educated and/or trained manpower and the general requirements of higher levels of know‐how on…

Segmenting travel situations on the basis of motivation and information‐collection by the traveller

Thomas Bieger, Christian Laesser

In the study presented here, travellers from Switzerland are segmented on the basis of their information collection, with respect to their motivation structure derived in a study…

Concepts, definitions and strategic relevance

Sophie Elias‐Varotsis

The attached paper presents a research assignment carried out between April and December 1999, by the GDR Tourisme: Lieux et Réseaux under the joint scientific supervision of…