Competitiveness and Tourism brings together the key scholarly articles which discuss the challenges of managing, maintaining and enhancing competitive tourism destinations. This authoritative collection of articles covers service sector competition, conceptual models of tourism competitiveness, the measurement and modelling of tourism competitiveness, organizing, planning and management issues, tourism marketing, price competitiveness and demand elasticity, sustainability issues and case studies of tourism competitiveness from around the world. Along with an original introduction by the editors, this two-volume set is designed for scholars, students and practitioners interested in a deeper understanding of the nature of tourism competition and implications for tourism and destination management.
Contents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Geoffrey I. Crouch and J.R. Brent Ritchie PART I COMPETITIVENESS AND THE SERVICE SECTOR 1. Belay Seyoum (2007), 'Revealed Comparative Advantage and Competitiveness in Services: A Study with Special Emphasis on Developing Countries' 2. H. Peter Gray (1989), 'Services and Comparative Advantage Theory' 3. John D. Palmer (1985), 'Consumer Service Industry Exports: New Attitudes and Concepts Needed for a Neglected Sector' 4. Paul Krugman (1994), 'Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession' 5. J.R. Brent Ritchie and Geoffrey I. Crouch (2003), 'Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives: The Competitive Destination' PART II CONCEPTUAL MODELS FOR UNDERSTANDING TOURISM COMPETITIVENESS 6. J.R. Brent Ritchie and Geoffrey I. Crouch (2003), 'A Model of Destination Competitiveness' 7. Larry Dwyer and Chulwon Kim (2003), 'Destination Competitiveness: Determinants and Indicators' 8. Ernie Heath (2003), 'Towards a Model to Enhance Destination Competitiveness: A Southern African Perspective' 9. Eulogio Bordas (1994), 'Competitiveness of Tourist Destinations in Long Distance Markets' PART III MEASURING AND MODELLING TOURISM COMPETITIVENESS 10. Josef A. Mazanec, Karl Wober and Andreas H. Zins (2007), 'Tourism Destination Competitiveness: From Definition to Explanation?' 11. Larry Dwyer, Robert Mellor, Zelko Livaic, Deborah Edwards and Chulwon Kim (2004), 'Attributes of Destination Competitiveness: A Factor Analysis' 12. Michael J. Enright and James Newton (2004), 'Tourism Destination Competitiveness: A Quantitative Approach' 13. Geoffrey I. Crouch (2011), 'Destination Competitiveness: An Analysis of Determinant Attributes' 14. Metin Kozak and Mike Rimmington (1999), 'Measuring Tourist Destination Competitiveness: Conceptual Considerations and Empirical Findings' 15. Geoffrey I. Crouch (2007), 'Measuring Tourism Competitiveness: Research, Theory and the WEF Index' 16. Maria Francesca Cracolici, Peter Nijkamp and Piet Rietveld (2008), 'Assessment of Tourism Competitiveness by Analysing Destination Efficiency' 17. Nishaal Gooroochurn and Guntur Sugiyarto (2005), 'Competitiveness Indicators in the Travel and Tourism Industry' 18. Jie Zhang and Camilla Jensen (2007), 'Comparative Advantage: Explaining Tourism Flows' 19. Arturo Melian-Gonzalez and Juan Manuel Garcia-Falcon (2003), 'Competitive Potential of Tourism in Destinations' PART IV ORGANIZING, PLANNING AND MANAGING FOR COMPETITIVENESS IN TOURISM 20. Frank M. Go and Robert Govers (2000), 'Integrated Quality Management for Tourist Destinations: A European Perspective on Achieving Competitiveness' 21. Evi C. Soteriou and Chris Roberts (1998), 'The Strategic Planning Process in National Tourism Organizations' 22. Jayoti Das and Cassandra DeRienzo (2010), 'Tourism Competitiveness and Corruption: A Cross-Country Analysis' 23. Ramona Gruescu, Roxana Nanu and Anca Tanasie (2009), 'Human Resources Development and ICT Contribution to the Tourist Destination Competitiveness' 24. Irene Daskalopoulou and Anastasia Petrou (2009), 'Urban Tourism Competitiveness: Networks and the Regional Asset Base' 25. Dimitris Lagos and Panayiotis G. Courtis (2008), 'Business Clusters Formation as a Means of Improving Competitiveness in the Tourism Sector' 26. Adam Blake, M. Thea Sinclair and Juan Antonio Campos Soria (2006), 'Tourism Productivity: Evidence from the United Kingdom' PART V COMPETITIVENESS AND TOURISM MARKETING 27. Dimitrios Buhalis (2000), 'Marketing the Competitive Destination of the Future' 28. Harsha E. Chacko (1996), 'Positioning a Tourism Destination to Gain a Competitive Edge' 29. Geoffrey I. Crouch (1994), 'Promotion and Demand in International Tourism' 30. J.R. Brent Ritchie, Geoffrey I. Crouch and Simon Hudson (1989), 'Assessing the Role of Consumers in the Measurement of Destination Competitiveness and Sustainability' 31. Arch G. Woodside and Steven Lysonski (1989), 'A General
