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Author Pechlaner, Harold

Title Overtourism : Tourism Management and Solutions
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility Ser
Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword by Roland Benedikter; PART 1: Overtourism: Introduction to the topic; 1. Overtourism: The challenge of managing the limits; Introduction -- triggers and causes; Problems and challenges -- interpreting limits; Counteracting overtourism -- guiding visitors; Conclusion and outlook; Bibliography; 2. Overtourism and resistance: Today's anti-tourist movement in context; Introduction; Towards a typology of anti-tourism
Conclusions: Contemporary anti-tourism in historical and comparative perspectiveBibliography; 3. Strategy is the art of combining short- and long-term measures: Empirical evidence on overtourism from European cities and regions; Introduction; Overtourism; Strategic management perspectives related to overtourism; Empirical study; Bibliography; 4. Problem and solution awareness in overtourism: A Delphi study; The phenomenon of overtourism in the context of tourism development; Overtourism from the point of view of research and derivation of central statements
Expert survey for problem assessment and potential solutionsConclusion of the Delphi study; Note; Bibliography; 5. UNESCO, cultural heritage sites and tourism: A paradoxical relationship; Background; UNESCO World Heritage and tourism; UNESCO World Heritage challenges in Asia; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; PART 2: Management concepts and possible solutions; 6. Development of core indicators for the assessment and analysis of sustainable city tourism; Introduction; Instruments and methods of sustainability balancing; Conclusions; Bibliography
7. Constantly adapting -- Approaches for effective visitor monitoring and adaptive visitor guiding in the Black Forest National ParkIntroduction; Indirect and direct visitor guiding; Visitor monitoring; Regulatory imperative or respect through information; Conclusions; Bibliography; 8. Visitor management in highly-visited attractions: Lessons that practitioners can learn from the U.S. theme park industry and the national parks; Introduction; Overtourism and overcrowding research; Overcrowding in the U.S. theme park industry; Overcrowding in the U.S. national park system
Conclusions and implications for decision makersBibliography; 9. Key themes for tourism development management: Lessons from Venice; Introduction; Overtourism in Venice: The latest diagnosis; The dilemma: Preservation versus change; Mainstream attractions and other experiences; Managing sustainability against overtourism; Managing tourist flows; Tourism flows and mobility management in an urban development strategy; Monitoring visitor flows; Conclusions; Note; Bibliography
Notes 10. Between seasonality and overtourism in seaside destinations: Multi-stakeholder perceptions of hosting music events during summer season
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Subject Overtourism.
Tourism -- Management
Overtourism
Tourism -- Management
Form Electronic book
Author Innerhofer, Elisa
Erschbamer, Greta
ISBN 9780429584503
0429584504
9780429582608
0429582609
9780429580383
042958038X
9780429197987
0429197985