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Studies on the impact of tourism in art cities underlined that many cities begun to suffer too many costs because of mass tourism. The problem of costs/benefits balance was in some case further complicated by the quick increase in a peculiar kind of excursionists — the so called false excursionists. Their increase is in fact joined with the spreading around the city of “alternative” accommodations. But false excursionists bring to the destination more costs and less benefits than traditional tourism, as a relevant part of their budget is spent where they are lodging. Thus, this sort of tourism “development” calls for visitors management policies able to reduce costs and maximize the tourism benefits for the city. But these policies require a deep understanding of the relationship between demand and accommodation supply, and between accommodations within and outside the city. And, more important, a continuous monitoring on how these relationships change in time, and why. Pricing and product strategies put into effect by accommodations, joined with changes in the demand behaviour, are in fact the basic variables of a mechanisms that might eventually lead to a substantial increase in false excursionists number and a stagnation in overnight tourists demand, with major consequences on the cost/benefits ratio for the art city as a whole. Aim of this paper is to introduce a set of 10 indicators and, through their application on the Venice situation, show how they can be used to analyze on diachronic terms the impact of accommodation evolution on demand choice.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of cognitive destination food image in food expectation, satisfaction and visit outcomes within a local context of the USA–Mexico border. The differences between tourists and excursionists were also assessed for their possible implications in strengthening an active market strategy in the framework of the same objective.

Four hypotheses were examined through Squares SEM techniques. The model validation was carried out assessing the measurement and structural model. Additionally a multi-group analysis was performed to test the tourists and excursionists moderation effect. The study used 518 questionnaires completed by US visitors in three important gastronomic regions of the coast of Baja California, Mexico.

The results suggest that tourists and excursionists obey different dimensions when structuring cognitive destination food image which showed a significant impact on visitor satisfaction and future intentions.

The moderation function of tourists and excursionists in the causal relationships of the research model was analyzed as one of the first explorations in food tourism marketing. In conjunction with other findings, this paper offers specific theoretical and practical implications on how to stimulate gastronomic consumption in these two segments of visitors.

One of the major changes recently noted in the evolution of world tourism demand seems to be represented by the shift from “sun and beach” holidays to more active and special interest ones. This trend will affect some destinations more than others. There will be losers and winners.

Tourism and transport represent two sides of the same management process, especially in tourism destinations characterised by a consistent or a rising volume of visitor flows.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the introduction of cruise ship tourism into historic urban centers, and the mitigation policies that can be implemented to encourage sustainable development of this relationship.

The paper focuses on the unique aspects of cruise tourism that differentiate it from other forms of mass tourism. Using the specific example of Charleston, South Carolina, it explores the difficulties that cruise tourism present to local residents and policymakers. It looks at different mitigation policies that have previously been implemented in cruise destinations around the world, and analyzes which have been the most effective.

Cruise ship tourism is the fastest growing segment of the tourism industry, and it is an issue that many coastal heritage destinations will soon face. Uncontrolled tourism from cruise ships is unsustainable, and strong government intervention is needed to maintain heritage cities.

This paper provides compelling evidence that cruise ship tourism presents an immediate threat to sustainable tourism in urban heritage centers, and provides policy recommendations for lawmakers.

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 continuous activities such as the “Trend Report on Tourism” or the “Continuous Holiday Research (CVO).” He also gives a list of annually changing projects e g the feasibility studies or the visitors estimation for excursionist or a given exhibition or event centre. The article reflects part of the results of the survey on Netherlands tourism. The author also estimates the visitors for day‐tourism attractions with the tools like the “Reference analysis” and the “absorption capacity calculations”. The author is a member of the “Tourist Research Center (TRC)” which is related with AIEST.

Slovenia is one of the new born states in Central Europe, one of the six republics of the former Yugoslavia. It proclaimed its independence on 26 June 1991, was recognised by the European Community on 15 January 1992 and was adopted as a full member of the United Nations on 22 May 1992.

Going up‐market is a strategy often proposed for the ferry industry to compete with the Channel Tunnel. In 1984, Sealink spent £6 million on a luxury service to Jersey and Guernsey, replacing a previous high volume/low yield marketing approach. Many criticisms can be made in retrospect of the marketing and pricing tactics used, which contributed to the £11 million loss incurred in the first year. However, given a direct choice between comfort and cost‐savings, most customers chose the latter. In the light of this experience the author argues that reinvestment in luxury ferries on the short sea routes to retain business in the face of competition will need to be financed by staff cost reductions rather than price increases.

Urban development and tourism 1.1 Does tourism matter? When we look at the way in which the agglomeration of Venice developed, the high speed of deconcentration of both population and economic activities — from the historical center to parts of the commune on the mainland and the last decade even to communes in the province, a process also known as suburbanisation — is at least noticeable (see for an English survey of existing literature Van der Borg, 1987).

Statistics and studies of International Day Trips have been of low priority for most tourism destination countries, especially when there are no frontier arrival or departure forms. The UN/WTO definitions (UNSO, YTS) distinguish in International Travel and Tourism Statistics to a country —