Routledge Tourism Research in Ibero-America: Urban Destinations, Sustainable Approaches and New Products

This comprehensive volume includes new contributions in research by Ibero-American specialists in tourism analysis. The chapters deal with outstanding areas of interest at the level of tourism research, both from the professional and academic perspectives in the Ibero-American region. The content spreads along a number of varied topics like the urban destination planning from an architectural point of view, the creation of new magic villages in Mexico, the management of natural and wildlife areas, and a new focus on the blue growth strategy from a circular economy´s perspective. There are chapters that provide new insights on cruise passengers profiling and discuss new methodologies to compute the impact of this type of vacational travelling for the territories involved. The book also examines the new areas of tourism in the market, like wine tourism and border medical tourism in Mexico. Tourism Research in Ibero-America: Urban Destinations, Sustainable Approaches and New Products postulates new perspectives in the study of the Trans-Atlantic’s shared interest for the tourism and hospitality activities, with fresh and up-to date methodologies. It analyses the current situation of the tourism sector for the whole Ibero-American world, including The Americas, Spain, and Portugal and will be of great interest to a wide audience. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Anatolia. About the Author Andrés Artal-Tur is Associate Professor at Technical University of Cartagena (Spain). His main research interest is in tourists' behaviour, marketing, and destination planning. More recently, his focus includes the study of the host-guest relationship in tourism, the socio-cultural dimension in the sustainability of destinations, and the social implications of COVID-19 in tourists' behaviour. Antónia Correia is Professor of Tourism Economics, University of Algarve and at the Tourism and Hospitality School at Universidade Europeia, both in Portugal. Research areas include consumer behaviour, tourism economics, and modelling. She has published more than one hundred papers in tourism, leisure, and economics journals. She is a member of the editorial boards of several leading journals including Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Business Research, Tourism Analysis, and Anatolia. Maria Pilar Jiménez-Medina is Assistant Professor at Technical University of Cartagena (Spain). Her main research interest is in residents' and tourists' behaviour, marketing, and products/destinations planning. Currently, her focus includes the study of the host-guest relationship in tourism, the socio-cultural dimension in the sustainability of destinations, and the social implications of COVID-19 in residents' and tourists' behaviour.