Citation
Bieger, T. and Laesser, C. (2010), "Editorial", Tourism Review, Vol. 65 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/tr.2010.36965aaa.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Editorial
Article Type: Editorial From: Tourism Review, Volume 65, Issue 1
Dear readers
Have a happy and prosperous 2010.
This issue contains two groups of papers, one with three “regular” papers and another group with a first selection of two papers from the 2009 AIEST conference in Savonlinna, Finland.
The first piece of work by Ma José Barlés-Arizón, Elena Fraj-Andrés, and Jorge Matute-Vallejo identifies typologies of women taking holiday decisions. Hereby, women are characterized based on their holiday decisions, their lifestyles (activities, interest and opinions) and on some socio-demographic variables (age, time living with the partner, children, occupation, level of studies, personal and family income, etc.).
The second paper by Oscar Claveria and Jordi Datzira attempts to fill the gap due to the lack of studies on tourism demand forecasting that use non-linear models. The aim of the paper is to introduce consumer expectations in time-series models in order to analyze their usefulness to forecast tourism demand. This is also the first study on tourism demand forecasting for Catalonia, one of the major Tourism receiving regions in Spain (e.g. Barcelona).
In the third contribution, Hansruedi Müller and Christian Moesch present procedures that make it possible to evaluate appropriately the economic infrastructure repercussions of a mega sports event, aiming at both theoretical and practical scientific targets.
The fourth paper, by Egon Smeral, is one of the first pieces of work about building a TSA for a city. First prepared for Austria, Vienna was the first state to commission a regional TSA (RTSA). This case study of Vienna demonstrates the valuable information of a RTSA as city tourism is a very complex phenomenon and its impact is difficult to capture.
The fifth and final contribution, by Kirstin Hallmann and Christoph Breuer, investigates the influence of image congruence between sport events and their hosts as perceived by sport tourists on future visits to the destination, respectively the sport event. They show that not only separated images affect future behavior but that the perceived fit between two actually distinct images influences behavior as well.
We wish you a good and hopefully interesting read.
Kind regards
Thomas Bieger and Christian Laesser