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Interorganizational cooperation in tourist destination: Building performance in the hotel industry

Tourism Management Erick Pusck Wilke, Benny Kramer Costa, Otávio Bandeira De Lamônica Freire & Manuel Portugal Ferreira Although the importance of interorganizational relationships in the tourism industry has been recognized, it is unclear how cooperation influences firms’ performance. We argue that interorganizational cooperation in tourist destinations nourishes firms’ internal capabilities – absorptive, innovative and adaptive […]

Length of Stay at Multiple Destinations of Tourism Trips in Brazil

Journal of Travel Research Glauber Eduardo de Oliveira Santos, Vicente Ramos & Javier Rey-Maquieira This study applied a shared heterogeneity duration model to tourists’ length of stay at different locations of multidestination trips. This analysis helps to understand tourists’ behaviors and to predict their length of stay according to relevant variables. Such information can be […]

Projection of tourist scenarios onto fragility maps: Framework for determination of provisional tourist carrying capacity in a Brazilian show cave

Tourism Management Heros Augusto Santos Lobo, Eleonora Trajano, Maurício de Alcântara Marinho, Maria Elina Bichuette, José Antonio Basso Scaleante, Oscarlina Aparecida Furquim Scaleante, Bárbara Nazaré Rocha & Francisco Villela Laterza Traditionally, the concept of tourist carrying capacity has been understood as a tool for planning tourism in natural areas. As such it has focused on […]

The airline business model spectrum

Journal of Air Transport Management Gui Lohmann & Tay T.R. Koo The paper examines the passenger airline industry on the premise that there is now a continuum of different business models in play rather than a simple categorization by discrete groups. We allocate the airlines within a spectrum of different business models, taking particular cognizance […]

Leadership and governance in regional tourism

Journal of Destination Marketing & Management Flávio Valente, Dianne Dredge & Gui Lohmann The rise of neoliberal market management has contributed to an incontrovertible ‘truth’ that regional tourism organizations (RTOs) established and led by business actors are more effective in leading regional tourism development. Despite this assertion, little evidence has surfaced to support the idea […]

From hub to tourist destination – An explorative study of Singapore and Dubai’s aviation-based transformation

Journal of Air Transport Management Guilherme Lohmann, Sascha Albers, Benjamin Koch & Kathryn Pavlovich The growth of air transport networks and deregulation have allowed small, low-populated places like Singapore and Dubai to become major international tourism destinations. Both have used tightly combined airline, airport and tourism strategies to help achieve this. Here we analyse developments […]