Tourism Planning and Development in Eastern Europe (eBook)

HANIA JANTA, Konstantinos Andriotis, Dimitrios Stylidis (Herausgeber)

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2022
144 Seiten
CABI (Verlag)
978-1-80062-035-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book outlines contemporary strategies for tourism development in post-socialist countries, reviewing the opportunities and challenges as well as initiatives and approaches to sustainability. Reviewing development and planning across Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Romania, it also considers post-COVID tourism.

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Three decades ago, the hypermobility of tourists from the days before the global pandemic was truly unthinkable in Eastern Europe. The borders were closed and the region isolated from the rest of the world. Despite an extraordinary transformation of tourism in the area since, Eastern Europe remains under-explored in tourism studies. This book fills the gap by outlining contemporary strategies for tourism development in post-socialist countries, considering the opportunities and challenges as well as the initiatives and approaches to sustainability.

Reviewing tourism development and planning across Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Ukraine, this book:

- offers a contemporary insight into Eastern European tourism, with a wide range of case studies from inter-disciplinary and single-disciplinary perspectives;
- uses varied methodological approaches and research methods, including in-depth interviews, focus groups, informal conversations, document analysis, netnography, questionnaires and secondary data, to form an interesting and diverse treatise;
- considers post-COVID tourism and the significant role of tourism stakeholders in its redevelopment.

Illuminating the various economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts that tourism has created, this book is a valuable reference for researchers and students of tourism and related disciplines, as well as anyone interested in the development of Eastern Europe.

Rezensionen

The book 'Tourism Planning & Development in Eastern Europe' fills a blank to cover a less-published, lesser-known European region and its major transition from the dark communist era to a free-market economy based on well-planned tourism development practices.

As a summary, the book gives a deeper understanding of the EE countries and their tourism industries' individual post-Soviet transition. It explores the contrast of the communist era's central planning (mostly containing a marginal role for tourism) and the free economies offering tourism planning as a tool for regional development creation. As a limitation, the book doesn't cover all EE countries that gives a hiatus of some important tourism destinations, such as Slovenia, Slovakia, Montenegro and Hungary.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.2022
• Reihe/Serie: CABI Regional Tourism Series
• Reihe/Serie: CABI Regional Tourism Series
• Co-Autor: Senija Causevic, Slawomir Dorocki, Cristi Frent, Veronika Jánová, Olga Junek, Halyna Kushniruk, Piotr Niewiadomski, Lukasz Quirini-Poplawski, Mykhailo Rutynskyi, Blanka Šimundic, Vlatka Škokic, Anna Staszewska, Svetla Stoyanova-Bozhkova, Natalia Tomczewska-Popowycz, Peter Vlachos, Kejsi Xhafaj, Michal Zemla
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Eastern Bloc tourism • Eastern European tourism development and planning • Eastern Europe tourism • gastronomic tourism • mass tourism • national tourism branding • post-socialism tourism • tourism and the media • Tourism branding • Tourism case studies • tourism destination image • Tourism Development • Tourism Impacts • tourism in Albania • tourism in Bulgaria • tourism in Croatia • tourism in Czech Republic • tourism in Estonia • tourism in Latvia • tourism in Poland • Tourism in Romania • tourism planning • Tourism policy • tourism post-COVID 19 • Visitor experience
• ISBN-10: 1-80062-035-7 / 1800620357
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80062-035-3 / 9781800620353