VISIONS FOR GLOBAL TOURISM INDUSTRY – CREATING AND SUSTAINING COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES Edited by Murat Kasimoğlu Visions for Global Tourism Industry – Creating and Sustaining Competitive Strategies Edited by Murat Kasimoğlu Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. 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ISBN 978-953-51-0520-6 Contents Preface IX Section 1 Tourism Industry – Development Strategy 1 Chapter 1 Sustainable Tourism – A Model Approach 3 Leszek Butowski Chapter 2 Knowledge-Based Decisions in Tourism 21 Diana Târnăveanu Chapter 3 Introduction to Input-Output Framework for Analysis of Tourism as an Industry 49 Tadayuki (Tad) Hara Chapter 4 Golden Age of Mass Tourism: Its History and Development 73 Erkan Sezgin and Medet Yolal Chapter 5 Recent Developments in Research and Future Directions of Culinary Tourism: A Review 91 Ching-Shu Su and Jeou-Shyan Horng Chapter 6 Enterprise Proportionalities in the Tourism Sector of South African Towns 113 Daan Toerien Chapter 7 New Opportunities for the Tourism Market: Senior Tourism and Accessible Tourism 139 Elisa Alén, Trinidad Domínguez and Nieves Losada Chapter 8 The Role of Time in the Global Tourism Market – A Demand Perspective 167 Grzegorz Gołembski and Agnieszka Niezgoda Chapter 9 Mature Tourist Destination: A New Tool to Forecast Internal Composition of Its Demand 179 Montserrat Hernández-López VI Contents Chapter 10 Security Measures on the International Tourism 195 Jesús E. Martínez Marín Section 2 Tourism Industry – Sustainable Development 209 Chapter 11 Heritages and Transformations of Agrarian Structures and the Rural Tourism Dynamic in the Czech Republic 211 Pascal Chevalier Chapter 12 Using Weather-Related Derivative Products for Tourism and Hospitality Businesses 225 M. Fuat Beyazit and Erdogan Koc Chapter 13 Tourism Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Proposal of a New Methodological Framework for Sustainable Consumption and Production 247 Camillo De Camillis, Paul Peeters, Luigia Petti and Andrea Raggi Chapter 14 Economic Impact of Tourism – A Review of Literatures on Methodologies and Their Uses: 1969-2011 269 Mohammad Nurul Huda Mazumder, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Abul Quasem Al-Amin and Muhammad Mohiuddin Chapter 15 Carrying Capacity of Tourism System: Assessment of Environmental and Management Constraints Towards Sustainability 295 Valentina Castellani and Serenella Sala Chapter 16 Reputational Damage to Tourism Industry from Earthquakes – Impact and Analysis of Mass Media Information 317 Mitsuyoshi Nagao and Azuma Ohuchi Chapter 17 The Tourist Potential of the Minho-Lima Region (Portugal) 339 José Cadima Ribeiro and Laurentina Cruz Vareiro Chapter 18 Long-Term Impacts of Non-Sustainable Tourism and Urban Development in Small Tropical Islands Coastal Habitats in a Changing Climate: Lessons Learned from Puerto Rico 357 Edwin A. Hernández- Delgado, Carlos E. Ramos-Scharrón, Carmen R. Guerrero-Pérez, Mary Ann Lucking, Ricardo Laureano, Pablo A. Méndez-Lázaro and Joel O. Meléndez-Díaz Chapter 19 Nautical Tourism and Its Function in the Economic Development of Europe 399 Tihomir Luković Contents VII Chapter 20 Sustainability in the Management of World Cultural Heritage 431 Devi Roza Kausar Chapter 21 Tourism in Rural Areas: Foundation, Quality and Experience 441 Sandra Maria Correia Loureiro Chapter 22 Islands and Tourism Development: A Viewpoint of Tourism Stakeholders of Lesvos Island 461 Kostas Rontos, Eleni Kitrinou, Dimitrios Lagos and Mihail Diakomihalis Preface Today, it is considered good business practice for tourism industries to support their micro and macro environment by means of strategic perspectives. This is necessary because we cannot contemplate companies existing without their environment. If companies do not involve themselves in such undertakings, they are in danger of isolating themselves from the shareholder. That, in turn, creates a problem for mobilizing new ideas and receiving feedback from their environment. In this respect, the contributions of academics from international level together with the private sector and business managers are eagerly awaited on topics and sub-topics within Strategies for Tourism Industry-Micro and Macro Perspectives. The books based on three main sections. First section is Tourism Industry: Micro and Macro Topics For Strategy Development has consisted of eight chapters relate with developing strategies from micro and macro approaches. Second section is Tourism Industry: Macro Perspective has consisted of six chapters relate with macro perspective of tourism industry from different approaches. Third section is Tourism Industry: Different Topics for Strategy Development relate with eclectic topic of tourism industry. Each paper has valuable conurbation to understand industry from visionary perspective. In this book, I am pleased to present many papers from all over the world that discuss the impact of tourism strategies. It is our hope that you will find the opportunity to extend your vision in the light of such scientific discussion. Editing a book relies on intensive team work and the contribution of various bodies such as companies and NGO’s. Firstly, I am always aware of the contribution of my colleagues, whose vision inspired us to commence this project. Secondly, I would like to express my appreciation for having the chance to work with practitioners whose visions and contribution made me aware of real need of industries Thirdly, I am most thankful to the writers of the book. It is a real pleasure to work with you in such an efficient and productive way that I hope we will continue in the future. X Preface Lastly, I owe a great debt to our organizing team who has worked hard to ensure the success of this international book. Without INTECH publishing involvement and heart-felt commitment this book would not have come about. In particular, I would like to state my gratitude for the efforts of Maja Kisic and Vana Persen. 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Level (Andrade, et al., 2010) Contemporary Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer care Among the great variety of applications developed for the tourism sector, Decision Support Systems (DSS) can play a fundamental role for their capacity to give organizations the 22 Visions for Global Tourism Industry – Creating and Sustaining Competitive. .. time reducing their size and making them easier to handle Concluding on the differences between data, information and knowledge, we can underline the following: data is an objective and static resource; 24 Visions for Global Tourism Industry – Creating and Sustaining Competitive Strategies information is an ensemble of meaningful data and has a value related to the purpose; knowledge is... of sustainable tourism 4 Visions for Global Tourism Industry – Creating and Sustaining Competitive Strategies When constructing the theoretical model of sustainable tourism, the author tried to take into consideration the hitherto output of the Polish and international literature, available thanks to the studies of source materials It enabled the adoption of main model assumptions, and later on, when... mathematical function dependencies and notation (explicitness of the model) The simplicity of the form, facilitating understanding of the model, is ensured through minimilization of the number of variables and by the graphic illustration of the model An additional intention of the author was to take into 12 Visions for Global Tourism Industry – Creating and Sustaining Competitive Strategies consideration the... economics, global change science and complexity theory These authors assume that natural and social systems do function in a relatively independent and non-linear way and therefore postulate implementation of the complex adaptive systems theory into the studies of tourism Simultaneously, they introduce the notions of comprehensive tourism system and complex adaptive tourism systems – CATS 6 Visions for Global. .. Section 1 Tourism Industry – Development Strategy 1 Sustainable Tourism – A Model Approach Leszek Butowski Vistula University in Warsaw Poland 1 Introduction Sustainable tourism, sustainable development through tourism, principles of sustainable development in tourism and tourism development in terms of sustainable tourism, in the literature often treated as names for the same phenomenon,... activists’ mass tourism This evolution, with the consideration of relations between alternative tourism, ecotourism and mass tourism and their relation to sustainable tourism, is presented i.a by A Niezgoda (2006) In a simpler form it can be presented graphically as in the Figure 1 Model relationships between sustainable tourism and unsustainable tourism (often identified with mass tourism) are an . VISIONS FOR GLOBAL TOURISM INDUSTRY – CREATING AND SUSTAINING COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES Edited by Murat Kasimoğlu Visions for Global Tourism Industry – Creating and Sustaining. D. Zaręba (2010). Visions for Global Tourism Industry – Creating and Sustaining Competitive Strategies 8 Fig. 1. Sustainable tourism and various forms of tourism – the evolution of approach. of tourism. Simultaneously, they introduce the notions of comprehensive tourism system and complex adaptive tourism systems – CATS. Visions for Global Tourism Industry – Creating and Sustaining