Economics of sustainable tourism: [selected papers from the first conference of the International Association for Tourism Economics (IATE), held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, from 25 to 27 October 2007]

Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of its fastest growing economic sectors helping to generate income and employment for local people. At the same time, it has many negative outsourced effects on the environment and local culture. Achieving a more sustainable pattern of tourism development is high on the global agenda aiming to meet human needs while preserving the environment now and for the future. "The Economics of Sustainable Tourism" aims to critically explore how tourism economic development can move closer to a sustainable ideal from a firm Economic analy