Pt. 1. Foundations for tourism research. An outline of the history of tourism theory: source material (for future research) / Boris Vukonicʹ -- Modern mass tourism in China: some theoretical issues / Julio Aramberri, Yanjun Xie -- Remodelling the language of tourism: from monologue to dialogue and trialogue / Graham M.S. Dann -- Researching tourism distribution / Douglas G. Pearce -- Impediments to international tourism: an exploration of issues in five APEC economies / Stephen L.J. Smith -- pt. 2. Implications for destination management. Assessing the impact of forecast combination on tourism demand forecasting accuracy / Haiyan Song, Kevin K.F. Wong, Stephen F. Witt -- Comparative tourism shocks / Lindsay W. Turner, Chau Jo Vu, Stephen F. Witt -- Why the public should pay for tourism marketing: a public economics perspective / Egon Smeral -- The role of individuals in the development and popularization of tourist destinations / Richard Butler, Roslyn Russell -- Home away from home: a research agenda for examining the resort community second home industry in Colorado / Patrick T. Long, Richard R. Perdue, Linda Venturoni -- pt. 3. Planning for tourism development. Planning sponsored tourism research: an investigation about its structure and trend / Honggang Xu, Jigang Bao, Botao Su -- Perspectives on tourism planning in China / Yang Wang, Geoffrey Wall -- Nurturing "social license to operate" through corporate-civil society relationships in tourism destinations / Peter W. Williams... [et al.] -- A consensus-building approach for optimizing tourism as a sustainable development strategy: the case of the tourism policy forum / Donald E. Hawkins, Sheryl Marie Elliott -- Exploring social representations of tourism: analysing drawings of tourism / Gianna Moscardo -- pt. 4. Human capital for tourism development. Tourism, migration and human capital: knowledge and skills at the intersection of flows / Allan M. Williams -- Reflections on the social construction of skills in