Andreas Papatheodorou

TL;DR: The International Academy for the Study of Tourism convened a session on global economic crisis and tourism during its 20th anniversary conference in Mallorca, Spain, in June 2009 as discussed by the authors and three articles featuring on the impacts of economic downturn on tourism in Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and North America have resulted and appeared in this issue of the Journal of Travel Research.

TL;DR: In this article, the Gorman/Lancaster characteristics framework is applied to tourism and a comparative exercise is undertaken in six different fields to provide an economic explanation for the observed variety in the actual consumer choice of destinations.

TL;DR: This paper examined evolutionary patterns in tourism from an economic geography perspective and proposed a new theoretical model where endogenous changes to the tourism circuit lead to a dualism in market and spatial structures: powerful conglomerates share the markets with a competitive fringe and core resorts share tourism spaces with peripheral destinations.

TL;DR: In this article, the demand for international tourism, in the Mediterranean region, is studied and a formal presentation of the proposed theoretical model is given, in particular, a version of the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) is adopted and a description of the variables involved and their sources, together with the estimation procedure.

TL;DR: In this paper, a hedonic analysis is performed, in which the price of holiday packages is regressed on a number of package characteristics and operator and location scaling factors, and a second-step correlation framework is used to offer a valid interpretation of the observed price differentials among core and peripheral holiday destinations.