CONTENTS:-
Section I: Changes in Demographics, Stages of Life, and Leisure Behaviour:
1. Leisure Futures: A Change in Demography?.
2. Concerns and Considerations About the Future of Youth Leisure: An International Perspective.
3. A Leisure Lifestyle Study of Generation X.
Section II: The Globalization of Leisure or Rediscovering Slowness?:
4. Spacing and Timing in Leisure Activities.
5. The Rediscovery of Slowness, or Leisure Time as One's and as Self-Aggrandizement?.
6. Can Slow Tourism Bring New Life to Alpine Regions?.
7. Leisure Investments: Global Supply and Demand.
Section III: (International) Cultural Leisure Behavior:
8. Intercultural Behavior: Glimpses of Leisure from an Asian Perspective.
9. Cultural Tourism and the Leisure Paradigam: The Australian Experience.
10. A Comparison of Leisure Styles in Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal.
Section IV: Changing Patterns in Lifestyle and Implications for Leisure Behavior:
11. The Hybrid Consumer of Leisure Squeezed Between Fun Maximization, chill Out, and the Radical Search for Inner values.
12. Wellness: A New Perspective for Leisure Centers, Health Tourism, and Spas in Europe on the Global Health Market.
13. Alpine Health Tourism: Future Prospects form a Medical Perspective.
14. Skiers, Ski Bums, Trust Fund Babies, Migrants, Techies, and Entrepreneurs/: The Changing Face of the Colorado Ski Industry.
15. Theme Park Tourist Destinations: Creating an Experience Setting in Traditional Tourist Destinations with Staging Strategies of Theme Parks.
16. The Future Role of Sporting Events: Evaluating the Impacts on Tourism.
17. Future Living Conditions and Mobility: Travel Behavior of Alpine Tourists.
18. From "Predatory" to "Experience" Tourism: Estimating Tourist Fruition for a Greenway.
Section V: Information Technologies in Leisure and Tourism:
19. Searching for Experience: Technology- Related Trends Shaping the Future of Tourism.
20. Italian Tourism on the Internet: New Business Models.
21. Electronic Travel Recommendation Agents and Tourism Choice.
22. The Assessment of Tourism and Leisure Trends by Means of Online management Information Systems.
