Environmental, social and economic sustainability is an important topic of today’s decision makers in tourism. This book, Harald Pechlaner, Peter Keller, Sabine Pichler and Klaus Weiermair, provides profound insights into current concepts and challenges of sustainable tourism development – with particular regard to mountain destinations worldwide.

Environmental, social and economic sustainability is an important topic of today’s decision makers in tourism. This book, Harald Pechlaner, Peter Keller, Sabine Pichler and Klaus Weiermair, provides profound insights into current concepts and challenges of sustainable tourism development – with particular regard to mountain destinations worldwide.

In tourism business productivity is decisive for competitiveness and growth. But there is a high uncertainty how to increase productivity without loss of quality and cost increases. This book, edited by Peter Keller and Thomas Bieger, provides an integrated analytical framework for understanding and improving productivity in tourism. Issues in the book are the labour productivity problem, trade-off between quality and productivity, information and communication technology, optimal firm size and cooperation and the role of government. The work contains highly qualified contributions from 32 leading researchers from 10 countries. They are empirically founded with a background of many practical cases. You will find fundamental insights, which drive to new solutions in business and new research in the field.