The 51st TRC meeting took place in Helsinki, Finland. The local organizer was Peter Björk.

Date: March 31 – April 3, 2016
Location: Helsinki, Finland

Abstracts

• Antonia Correia and Metin Kozak: “Tourists spending behavior in Portugal: A quantile regression analysis”
• Eugeni Aguilo, Marta Jacob, and Aldric Vives: “Revenue Management and the elasticity of demand: The case of three hotels”
• Monika Bandi: “Quality analysis of hotel rating portals – theoretical and empirical evidence from Switzerland”
• Johanna Danielsson: “Finding the clues that could help change sunbathing behavior – a multi method approach”
• Jessica de Bloom: “Should I Stay or Should I Go? Comparing leisure behaviors, thoughts and feelings during holiday travel and at home”
• Raija Komppula: “The role of different stakeholders in destination development, Case Ruka ski resort in Finland”
• Christian Laesser: “Luxury Travel: Is it only for the affluent? Conceptualization and exploratory empirical investigation of the financial domains in a mature market – Switzerland”
• Martin Lohmann: “Tourist’s Happiness”
• Justyna Majewska: “Spatial-temporal agglomeration processes in tourism – results of exploratory spatial data analysis of tourism supply in Poland in the period 2000-2015″
• Harald Pechlaner: “Architectural Governance and Regional Development: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Coordination of Architectural Development and the Regional Building Culture in five Alpine Regions”
• Gareth Shaw and Scott McCabe: “Social Tourism: the role of the third sector providers in a period of austerity”
• Egon Smeral: “Tourism forecasting performance: considering the instability of demand elasticities”
• Paris Tsartas, Ioannis Spilanis, and Andreas Papatheodorou: “Methodological, Developmental and Managerial Issues regarding the implementation of the Laboratory of Tourism on the Region of the South Aegean”
• Karl Wöber: “A Scientific Publication Platform for Tourism”