Time Shift, Leisure and Tourism / Edited by, Mattos Armando & Jef Pawluk

Chapter 1. Demographic Change, Tourism Expenditure and Life Cycle Behaviour Chapter 2. Economic Analysis of Tourism consumption Dynamics: A time-varying parameter demand system approach Chapter 3. Time-Varying linkages between tourism receipts and economic growth in a small open economy Chapter 4. Current sociological theories and issues in tourism Chapter 5. Real-Time forecasting regional tourism with business sentiment surveys Chapter 6. Tourist's perception of haze pollution and the potential impacts on travel: Reshaping the features of tourism seasonabiligy in beijing, china Chapter 7. 2050 Scenarios for long-haul tourism in the evening global climate change regime Chapter 8. Combination of long term and short term forecasts, with application to tourism demand forecasting

HauptbeschreibungTime has a strong impact on the leisure and tourism industry. How people spend their time now and particularly in the future will have major implications for leisure and tourism markets. At this stage there are increasingly new patterns of time allocation and hybrid forms of life time activities. Many of the new patterns of time allocation are overlapping into the sphere of recreational activities. Also the traditional use of leisure time itself is changing into new actions. Among the major forces which account for these changes are long-term declines in economic and productivi.