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Carrying Capacity Assessment for Tourism Development: A Strategic Approach

In: Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism

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  • Sotrios Varelas

    (Neapolis University Pafos)

  • Dimitrios Belias

    (Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly)

Abstract

The aim of the current research is to analyze the limits and prospects of tourism development as they are approached and evaluated through the methodological tool of the carrying capacity assessment on a local scale. The study areas where the application of the carrying capacity indices are investigated are Attica, South Aegean, Crete, Central Macedonia, Ionian Islands and Peloponnese. Results illustrate that development of tourism infrastructures and especially accommodation, affects positively the tourism development and contribute the increase of inbound tourism both the extension of the tourism period and the positive economic results of the regions.

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  • Sotrios Varelas & Dimitrios Belias, 2019. "Carrying Capacity Assessment for Tourism Development: A Strategic Approach," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Androniki Kavoura & Efstathios Kefallonitis & Apostolos Giovanis (ed.), Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism, pages 869-876, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-030-12453-3_100
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12453-3_100
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