Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Alessandro Lanza, Anil Markandya and Francesco Pigliaru -- An investigation on the growth performance of small tourism countries / Rinaldo Brau, Alessandro Lanza and Francesco Pigliaru -- Forecasting international tourism demand and uncertainty for Barbados, Cyprus and Fiji / Felix Chan ... [et al.] -- Land, environmental externalities and tourism development / Javier Rey-Maquieira Palmer ... [et al.] -- Tourism, increasing returns and welfare / Jean-Jacques Nowak, Mondher Sahli and Pasquale Sgro -- How to develop an accounting framework for ecologically sustainable tourism / Cesare Costantino and Angelica Tudini -- The effect of climate change and extreme weather events on tourism / Andrea Bigano ... [et al.] -- Sustainable tourism and economic instruments : international experience and the case of Hvar, Croatia / Tim Taylor ... [et al.] -- Tourism and sustainable development : lessons from recent World Bank experience / Anil Markandya, Tim Taylor and Suzette Pedroso -- Using data envelopment analysis to evaluate environmentally conscious tourism management / Valentina Bosetti, Mariaester Cassinelli and Alessandro Lanza -- A tale of two tourism paradises : Puerto Plata and Punta Cana - the determinants of room price in the Dominican Republic using a hedonic function approach / Giovanni Ruta and Suzette Pedroso -- A choice experiment study to plan tourism expansion in Luang Prabang, Laos / Sanae Morimoto.