List of Tables

2.1  Inbound tourism to China

2.2  Domestic tourism in China

3.1  The language of tourism as monologue

3.2  The language of tourism as dialogue

3.3  The language of tourism as trialogue

4.1  An analytical framework for examining the visitors’ perspective on tourism distribution channels

5.1  APEC tourism goals and associated strategies

5.2  Summary of impediments to tourism in five APEC member economies

6.1  Forecasting performance as measured by MAPE

6.2  MAPE of the single forecasts and the combined forecasts (simple average)

6.3  MAPE of the single forecasts and the combined forecasts (weighted average)

6.4  Encompassing test results

7.1  Types of tourism shock

7.2  Time frame available monthly (from January of year shown) to December 2003

7.3  Summary statistics for the depth and length of shocks (per cent)

8.1  Value added multipliers per unit of overall demand: input—output table for the year 2000

8.2  Share of tourism exports in GDP

8.3  Employment multipliers per E100,000 of overall demand, input—output table for the year 2000

8.4  Development of employees in the hotel and restaurant industry in selected countries

10.1  Study region land ownership

11.1  Tourism geography literature in 10 geographical journals, 1978–2003

11.2  Statistical analysis of free application projects on human geography supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China in 1991–2003

11.3  Number of schools entitled to grant Masters’ degrees for tourism management and their academic backgrounds

11.4  Comparison of topics of tourism literature between Tourism Tribune and Annals of Tourism Research, 2004

12.1  Tourism planning approaches

12.2  Stages of tourism development in China

12.3  The obstacles of practising PDM among rural poor communities in a top-down political environment

12.4  Impetus and incentives for practising PBS among rural poor communities in a top-down political environment

13.1  Top perceived drivers of W-B—ENGO stakeholder relationships

13.2  Perceived benefits of W-B—ENGO stakeholder engagement

14.1  Knowledge management framework and the consensus building approach of the Tourism Policy Forum

14.2  Expert panel

14.3  Tourism policy forum objectives

14.4  Adequate budget allocations from central government 1

14.5  Adequate budget allocations from central government 2

14.6  Adequate budget allocations from central government 3

15.1  Frequency of occurrence of symbolic elements

15.2  Summary of patterns of co-occurrence of symbolic elements in drawings

17.1  Research locations

17.2  Position of respondents (%)

17.3  Gender of respondents (%)

17.4  Educational attainment (%)

17.5  Duration of work in current hotel (%)

17.6  Duration of work in current position (%)

17.7  Next career move (%)

17.8  Plans to remain in current job (%)

17.9  Promotion opportunities (%)

17.10  Working in hotel front office

17.11  Importance of skills in front office work

17.12  Fluency in languages (n)

18.1  Stewardship in family businesses

19.1  Entertainment evaluation: the elements defining the consumer reaction

19.2  A framework for entertainment science research

21.1  Resort-related articles in key journals 2000–2004

21.2  Evaluation matrix of current challenges

21.3  Evaluation matrix of future challenges

22.1  Sample income distribution

22.2  Choice frequencies and income effects

22.3  An example of sub-orbital space tourism attributes

23.1  International tourist arrivals to Malaysia 2004

23.2  Visitor arrivals to Sabah 1995–2004

24.1  South-eastern Europe: international inbound tourism (in 000s)

24.2  The basic economic geography of south-eastern Europe, 2002

24.3  Serbia and Montenegro: tourists and the instability/stability factors

24.4  Croatia: accommodation and selected touristic facilities, 1980–2004

24.5  Croatia: tourists according to residency, 1980–2004 (in 000s)

24.6  Croatia: visits to and bed-nights in major sea-side resort areas, 1980–2004 (in 000s)

26.1  Profile of the senior interviewees