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The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry bridges the gap between tourism research and economic geography by bringing together leading academics in geography, planning and tourism. The authors explain tourism's definitions and examine whether tourism can be categorized as an industry. They provide detailed analyses of key sectors, such as tour operators, airlines and the hotel industry from a broad international perspective. The book also explores issues such as business cycles, labour dynamics, entrepreneurship and the role of the state in tourism and concludes that the producti

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Summary Tropical deforestation has strong impacts on many ecosystem services such as global climate regulation, preservation of biodiversity and regulation of sediment and water fluxes.Solutions for regional development questions are increasingly sought in cross-border cooperative arrangements. The tourism sector is often assigned with a high potential in this regard due to the sector’s alleged contributions to the economic viability and quality of life in rural destinations, and the assumed ease with which cross-border tourism projects can be initiated. However, the underlying mechanisms behind tourism-related regional development processes in cross-border settings remain poorly understood. Combining tourism geographies, border studies and regional science, we I aim to fully understand the structural delivery mechanisms for tourism-induced regional development in European borderland contexts. First, we I conceptually and empirically explored the interactions between (holistic) landscapes, tourism landscapes, and regional development in rural destinations. Our findings indicate that tourism-related regional development depends not so much on optimizing individual activities and actions. Rather, regional development processes depend on interconnecting all emplaced tourism-related stakeholders, resources and activities within the wider regional system through multi-level governance. Destination-wide provision of institutional support for, and coordination with, local networking agencies such as community and entrepreneurial organizations provide a practical strategy to increase the socially and spatially integrative position of tourism in region-building processes. Second, we I applied and refined these insights to European borderland contexts. Building on empirical research in transnational and within-country borderlands in Belgium, Germany and the Czech Republic, we I found that even though cross-border tourism project development shows to be relatively straightforward in most regions, there is no automatic one-to-one relation between tourism development and regional development. In absence of integrative institutional structures and inability of institutional brokers, uncoordinated cross-border tourism project development may even lead to asymmetrical development between borderlands. Establishing cross-border tourism governance and coordination mechanisms to avoid these outcomes is complicated by both sector-specific and more general border-related complexities. Potential facilitators for cross-border tourism cooperation, such as the presence of cross-border identity and historical connections, may indeed ease this process but cannot work miracles when administrative borders are institutionally hard. To summarize, borderlands tourism can indeed function as a tool for transnational and within-country cross-border regional development, but its complexity can be easily underestimated.