The Tourist Review: Volume 55 Issue 4

The social sciences perspectives: Research into future trends

Adrian Asper

Distinguished members of AIEST, dear ladies and gentlemen, I am sure you have noticed that tourism and culture is an extremely broad and vaguely defined subject. This was clearly…

The economic perspectives: Creating strategic positions for future success in cultural management

Richard Prentice

This workshop involved six presentations, the speakers being: Thomas Bieger, Christine Hope, Harold Pechlaner, Tanja Mihalic, Karl Socher, and Franc Pauko. As the papers are…

Spatial perspectives: Basic requirements for sustainable cultural development in the area of tourism

Manfred Zeiner

The introduction of Mrs Origet du Cluzeau focussed mainly on the topic of sustainability of cultural tourism. The question “How sustainable will the future of cultural tourism…

Cultural science perspectives: The consequences of “event and experience culture”

Didier Van Houts

« Tourism is all about selling dreams » In his basic report, Frans Schouten stated that heritage is the outcome of a melting pot of value systems, of which you can describe the…

LOCATIONAL ENHANCEMENTS OF CULTURAL TOURISM DESTINATIONS

Craig A. Peterson, Claire McCarthy

One strategy that communities often adopt to generate tourism growth is to enhance those assets of the destination that attract visitors. For already popular destinations…

Original culture in the development of contemporary tourism

Darko Vlahovi

Modern man lives in such conditions where he is necessarily oriented toward the original natural milieu from biological, health, cultural and educational reasons. He is also…

Perspektiven der schweizer bergbahnbranche — eine fallstudie für die transformation einer wichtigen touristischen teilbranche

Thomas Bieger, Christian Laesser, Eva Ludwig, Patrick Caspar

The article is a summarised version of a prospective study for the Swiss tourism region of Valais by the Institute for Public Management and Tourism (ITD) of the University of St…

Management strategique de la cooperation entre les entreprises et les organisations du tourisme

Peter Keller

Co‐operation is necessary for the economic survival of destinations with a fragmented offer under conditions of global competition. Customer orientation forces the SME's to…

Netherlands research institute for recreation and tourism

Jac A.M. Zom

This article gives an overview on the research activities of the “Netherlands Research Institute for Recreation and Tourism (NRIT)”. The author presents its permanent and…