Health tourism and wellness tourism have become "temptations" with many world markets looking to take advantage of their growing popularity. Babymoon tourism is one of the hottest trends in travel today. The aim of this study is to fill a gap in the research on babymoon tourism by measuring the...

Contemporary worldwide processes have brought many significant changes to all economic and social spheres on a global scale. Informational and scientific progress has helped to create efficient and swift communication channels so that one can easily reach all needed information. Because of...

This paper considers the influence of business cycles and economic crises on Spain's tourism competitiveness. This competitiveness is measured by its share in world tourism. Analysing the presence of unit roots in the market share series from 1958 to 2010, the permanent effects of economic crises...

Destination management is an important competitive marketing method for global tourism destinations. Especially, when cooperated with image and brand management, it helps destinations to stand out from today's severe crowd of competition. The successful and efficient destination management...

This article explores the potentials of countries of the Latin America and Caribbean region in the global market for international tourism up to the end of the next decade. This was achieved by analyzing past trends of international tourism in the region, and projecting these trends to the year...

This report discusses hotel trends, arrivals, performance, supply and chain penetration in the South American hotel sector, particularly in Argentina and Brazil. Business travel is disproportionately important for South America's travel and hospitality sector since leisure tourism is relatively...

This report focuses on the non-consumptive side of wildlife tourism and the fastest growing trend of watching non-captive wildlife in their natural habitat. The global market size of wildlife tourism today is an estimated 12 million trips annually, growing by an estimated 10% per year. The global...

This article examines the rise and fall of attendances in amusement and theme park attractions in 2007 and the prospects for 2008 amidst the economic woes ahead. Most of the major players saw attendances increase in 2007 and the like-for-like attendance for the leading operating groups showed a...

This article examines the market share of Europe in the tourism industry in 2007 which continues to be eroded by Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Europe retained a 54.3% of the market in 2006, a 4% increase on 2005 to 456M arrivals. In U.S. dollar terms, Europe remains the revenue per available...

This report presents an overview of international tourism market trends worldwide, as well as in each region, subregion and individual destination country as of the year 2006, as well as forecasts up until 2020. The report is presented in two parts. The first part presents highlights of world...