Niche Tourism

Resistance to sustainability practices often stems from the industry’s view that sustainable tourism requires a profitability tradeoff where the additional costs associated with sustainability do not pay off in increased economic returns, yet few studies have been attempted to prove or disprove this viewpoint.  This study analyzed spending patterns and length of stay of visitors to Montana, USA to determine if strong geotravelers (higher sustainable behaviors) were different than those with less sustainable behaviors.  Results found that total trip spending by strong geotravelers (US $1,164) was significantly higher than the overall spending of both moderate (US $866) and minimal geotravelers (US $668).  These findings suggest that sustainable travelers are a travel market to be reckoned with in the tourism marketing and business world. The combination of their pro-sustainable behavior and increased spending provides evidence of a market segment in which destinations can benefit.

This paper examines the current situation and the possibilities for developing sustainable wine tourism in the region of Demir Kapija and Florina. Because these two regions are in close proximity to each other it is possible to create interesting and mutual products related to wine tourism. Three different types of wine tourism products are examined. Because sustainable development ofwine tourismdepends onasite’s locationcharacteristics there are differences in the types of products that can be developed in these two regions. The conducted research takes into account the comparative analysis of connectivity, accessibility and developmental characteristics of these two regions. The goal of this paper is to propose recommendations for undertaking in the future. The reason for conducting this research was the current state of affairs in these two regions related to wine tourism which shows a relatively low usage of the overall existing potentials

This book takes inventory of and evaluates the available resources for the development of alternative tourism in Turkey. It examines the role of alternative tourism in future tourism development plans and proposes public policies necessary to assure sustainability. Although tourism started later in Turkey than in the Western Mediterranean countries it has grown very rapidly during the last three decades and today the country ranks among the top ten countries in the world in terms of both arrivals and receipts. However, most of the tourism development has been in the mass tourism sector or the so-called sun-sea-sand tourism. While crucial for the economic development of Turkey, mass tourism, in the absence of proper planning, has happened in a haphazard manner leading to numerous environmental and socio-cultural problems. This book argues that, in order to mitigate these problems, Turkey should encourage the development of alternative forms of tourism.

Abstract
The delinquency in hotels is well known both to the professionals of the sector as well as to the clients. The specificity of hotel accommodation as an area of “hospitality” and discretion, providing distinctive tranquility and security prevents disclosure of delinquency cases that occur in them. Despite the discretion which the handling of these cases entails, their existence is undeniable.
This survey, conducted for the first time in Greece, aims at exploring the extent and forms of delinquency in the Greek hotel industry, by recording and classifying phenomena of delinquent behavior and how hotel managers are dealing with them.
The survey was conducted on the basis of a structured questionnaire that was distributed to directors and managers of hotel businesses. Due to the expected reserves to make public these incidents, the sample was a “convenience sample” and was combined with personal interviews with hotel directors. The questions posed were related to the manifestation of delinquency cases, their type, the way of confronting them, the personnel responsible for their management, the existence or not of relative staff training, the employment of security officers, the involvement or not of the police, the communicative handling of the cases, etc.
The survey shows that hotel delinquency includes a wide range of actors both within and outside the hotel circuit. It also reveals the lack of security departments charged with preventing and managing these cases. In addition, the study demonstrates the necessity of carrying more targeted research by region and category of hotel accommodation in order to draw more valid conclusions on preventing and reducing offending behavior in hotels.
Key-words: hotel, hotel delinquency, hotel safety and security.

Nowadays competition on the tourism market has become very fierce. In order to obtain a high level of competitiveness tourism destinations try to improve their offer in many ways. These improvements contain not only quantitative, but also qualitative upgrades of their tourism offer. Not only improving the quality of tourism services is important but also new and interesting things have to be included in the ever-changing process of providing services and products. Therefore, destinations create new types of tourism that are intended for specific target markets of consumers. In order to do this, destinations have to determine what the strong points are that exist on their territory. More so, the destinations that already are on a higher level of development and that have a higher number of visitors, must be very creative in the creation of new services. Such a destination is the SouthWest Planning Region in the Republic Macedonia that, compared to the other regions in the country, is the most developed in the manner of tourism infrastructure and number of registered arrivals. The first step of making a detailed inventory of tourism values is creating a register of tourism potentials. Because lake tourism is already fairly developed which also has a pronounced level of seasonality, this region tries to create and develop other tourism types. Especially rural tourism is an unexplored and unexploited opportunity. In this paper the process of creating a Register of potentials for rural tourism development will be elaborated. Specifically, the support services are explored in this paper. The support services represent only one of three general elements of every tourism destination (FAS-methodology). The field research of this study included completing a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was based on the FAS methodology applied by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) with the aim to assess the tourist values in a particular region. This methodology allows assessment of tourist categories identified as "Factors", "Attractors" and "Support Services" (FAS) which portrays the destination as a complexity of interacting subsystems in these three areas and which are interconnected. The research process included multiple approaches which allowed making proposals by the research team, while different stakeholders of the region identified the tourism potential of rural areas. This in the future will allow for the inclusion of different resources in the rural-tourist offer, as well as creating specific products of rural tourism. An elaborative methodology was implemented within the research process which comprised quantitative and qualitative research aspects. The interpretation of the preliminary results and the exchange of experiences were the subject of revision at organized consultative meetings in the different municipalities. This created synergistic relations between the research team, the observers and the stakeholders who were discussing the gained results.