Aviation and Tourism: Implications for Leisure Travel

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Anne Graham, Andreas Papatheodorou, Peter Forsyth
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - Transportation - 377 pages
This book deals exclusively with issues related to the relationship between aviation and leisure travel. It does this with an analysis of the theoretical concepts relevant to the subject area combined with a detailed investigation of current practice within the aviation and tourism industries. Each chapter is illustrated with case study material that will reinforce the understanding of the issues that are being examined.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Leisure Travel Demand
5
The Nature of Leisure Travel Demand
7
Trends and Characteristics of Leisure Travel Demand
21
Aviation Marketing and the Leisure Market
35
Regulation and Government Policy
47
The Impact of Civil Aviation Regimes on Leisure Travel
49
Leisure Travel and Legal Issues in Aviation
59
Applications and Implications of Information and Communication Technology for Airports and Leisure Travellers
209
Economic and Environmental Impacts
225
New Air Services Tourism and Economic Development
227
The Environmental Sustainability of Aviation and Tourism
239
Destination Case Studies
255
Brazil
257
India
267
China
279

Tourism and Aviation Policy Exploring the Links
73
Airline Issues
83
The Future of Charter Operations
85
The Emergence of the Low Cost Carrier Sector
103
From a National Airline to an EU LeisureBased Carrier
119
Leisure Travel Network Carriers and Alliances
137
Market Power and Vertical Disintegration? Airline Networks and Destination Development in the United States and Dubai
147
Implications for Airports
165
Airport Requirements for Leisure Travellers
167
The Impact of Attracting Low Cost Carriers to Airports
177
Airport Marketing and Tourism in Remote Destinations Exploiting the Potential in Europes Northern Periphery
193
The Middle East
291
Africa
303
Mauritius
313
South Paciļ¬c
323
Conclusions
333
Conclusions Themes and Future Issues
335
Bibliography
345
Glossary
369
Name Index
371
Subject Index
375
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