Emphasizing sustainability, productivity, tourism demand, and the impact of tourism on the host community, economists offer 10 theoretical and empirical papers on tourism economics. They were
selected from presentations to the first conference on the matter, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in October 2007. Among the topics are determinants of tourist satisfaction as sun and sand
mass destinations, a panel data analysis of residential water demand in the Mediterranean tourist region Sardinia, the relationship between tourism and trade, clustering tourism destinations by
means of composite indices of sustainability, and equilibrium dynamics and local indeterminacy in a model of sustainable tourism. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
