Tourism and Regional Science: New Roads

Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1 Leisure, Tourism and Space; An Introduction.- Part II: Tourism, Specialisation and Competition.- Chapter 2 Ranking World Tourism Competitiveness. A Comparison of Two Composite Indicators.- Chapter 3 Smart Tourism Specialization to Outfox the Competition: An analytical framework.- Chapter 4 Key Geographical Factors for Inbound and Domestic Tourism in Hokkaido.- Part III: Tourism and Historical Heritage.- Chapter 5 Tourism, Leisure and Cultural Heritage: the Challenge of Participatory Planning and Design.- Chapter 6 Analyzing Tourists’ Preferences For a Restored City Waterway.- Chapter 7 Space Invaders? The Role of Airbnb in the Touristification of Urban Neighbourhoods.- Part IV: Tourism Development, Sustainability and Resilience.- Chapter 8 Tourism and Economic Resilience: Implications for Regional Policies.- Chapter 9 Cross-border Sustainable Tourism Development for Busan-Fukuoka Megapolitan Cluster in Northeast Asia.- Chapter 10 Impact of Covid-19 in Tourism Regions. The Use of a Base Model for the Azores.

Soushi Suzuki, Department of Life Science and Technology, Hokkai-Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan
Karima Kourtit, Management Science, The Center for Actionable Research of the Open University (CAROU), The Open Universiteit, Heerlen, The Netherlands
Peter Nijkamp, Management Science, The Center for Actionable Research of the Open University (CAROU), The Open Universiteit, Heerlen, The Netherlands