Air Transport – A Tourism Perspective

1. Introduction
Anne Graham, Frederic Dobruszkes

PART A. THE RATIONALE FOR FLYING
2. The contemporary tourist
Claire Humphreys
3. Reasons for flying
Frederic Dobruszkes, David Ramos-Perez, Jean-Michel Decroly
4. Limits to growth
Anne Graham

PART B. BEFORE TRAVELLING: CHOOSING TRANSPORT MODES, AIRLINES AND AIRPORTS
5. The impact of government policy and regulation
David Timothy Duval
6. Intermodal competition and tourism
Daniel Albalate Del Sol, Xavier Fageda Sanjuan
7. Airport choice
Tim Ryley
8. The option of self-connection
Augusto Voltes-Dorta, Juan Carlos Martin
9. Distribution trends
Michael Hanke
10. The role of the different airline business models
Frankie O’Connell
11. The end of european charter airlines: Myths and realities
David Ramos-Pérez, Frederic Dobruszkes

PART C. ON THE GO: ACCESSING AIRPORTS AND THE AIRLINE AND AIRPORT EXPERIENCE
12. The role of airport surface access in the passenger journey
Tom Budd
13. The airport experience
Walanchalee Wattanacharoensil
14. The airline - airport relationship: Allocating risks and opportunities in a vertical partnership
Frank Fichert

PART D. REACHING THE DESTINATION AND ATTRACTIONS
15. Partnerships between tourism destination stakeholders and the air transport sector
Nigel Halpern
16. The airport as an attraction: The airport city and aerotropolis concept
Andy Goetz
17. The role of niche aviation operations as tourist attractions
Isaac Levi Henderson, Wai Hong Kan Tsui
18. Conclusion
Frederic Dobruszkes, Anne Graham

Air Transport: A Tourism Perspective provides rigorous insights into the current complexities, synergies and conflicts within air transportation and tourism, presenting a balanced, comprehensive, contemporary, and global analysis that thoroughly examines the links between theory and practice. The book offers readers a multi-sector, global perspective on the practical implications of the link between air transport and tourism. By using a novel approach, it systematically explores the successive stages of a tourist's trip—investigating reasons for flying, the airport experience, airline industry structures, competition and regulation, and air transportation and destination interrelationships.

In addition, the book explores current and salient debates on such issues as the influence of traveling to visit friends and family, the role of charters versus low cost carriers, public subsidies to support airport development, and much more.

• Presents insights from an international team of expert contributors with proven research and publication experience in their specialty area
• Includes cutting-edge analyses based on original research that identifies emerging research directions and policy and managerial implications
• Utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to fully explore theoretical and policy concepts and their effect on air transportation and tourism development
• Provides case studies from around the globe in each chapter

Transportation, Aviation, and Tourism researchers in Transportation, Geography, Economics, and Management. Airline, Airport, and Travel practitioners and consultants. Aviation and Tourism policy-makers, planners, regulators, government officials, and other authorities