Table of Contents

1. Time Series Modelling of Tourism Demand from the USA, Japan and Malaysia to Thailand 2. Determinants of Tourist Satisfaction at Sun and Sand Mass Destinations 3. Determinant Attitudes to Tourism in a Mass Tourist Destination: A Comparative-Static Analysis 4. A Panel Data Analysis of Residential Water Demand in a Mediterranean Tourist Region: the Case of Sardinia 5. Pollution Adverse Tourists and Growth 6. On the Relationship Between Tourism and Trade 7. Evaluating Labour Productivity of Diversifying Rural Tourism: Evidence from Japan 8. Clustering Tourism Destinations by Means Composite Indexes of Sustainability 9. Equilibrium Dynamics and Local Indeterminacy in a Model of Sustainable Tourism 10. How Tourism can Help Preserve Cultural Heritage Sites: Constructing Optimal Entrance Fee Schemes to Collect Visitors’ WTP for the World Heritage Site

About the Author

Fabio Cerina is Lecturer in Economic Policy at the Deparment of Social and Economic Research, University of Cagliari, and Research Fellow at the Center for North South Economic Research (CRENoS). His research interests are in Tourism, Environment and Growth and Economic Geography.


Anil Markandya is Professor of Economics at the University of Bath, UK, and Scientific Director of the Basque Centre for Climate Change in Bilbao, Spain. His research interests lie in the areas of microeconomics, quantitative economics, including econometrics, and environmental economics. It is the last of these that has been the focus of his research over the last twenty years and he is an acknowledged international authority in the field. Anil has recently published a textbook entitled Environmental Economics for Sustainable Growth (Edward Elgar).


Michael McAleer is Distinguished Professor, Department of Quantitative Economics, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He has published in a wide range of leading international journals, and his research interests include theoretical and applied econometrics, theoretical and applied statistics, time series analysis, financial econometrics, modelling environmental systems, intellectual property, methodology, tourism research and tourism management.