Transportation Systems for Tourism

Chapter 1. Transportation Systems and Tourism.- Chapter 2. Tourism Transportation.- Chapter 3. Destination and Transport Geography.- Chapter 4. Accessibility of Destinations.- Chapter 5. Public Transport and Urban-Rural Tourism.- Chapter 6. Coach Tourism.- Chapter 7. Drive Tourism.- Chapter 8. Drive Tourism: Cars, Motorcycle and RVs.- Chapter 9. Bicycle Tourism.- Chapter 10. Rail Tourism.- Chapter 11. Water Transport and Tourism.- Chapter 12. Recreational Transportation and Tourism.- Chapter 13. Air Transport and Tourism.- Chapter 14. Space Tourism.- Chapter 15. Transportation and Tourist Buying Behavior Modeling.- Chapter 16.  Tourism Transportation and Sustainability.

M. R. Dileep is a noted tourism academician, author, and columnist. Having been engaged in tourism academics for more than 20 years, he is currently the Director of the Kerala Institute of Tourism and Travel Studies (KITTS-Dept. of Tourism, Govt. of Kerala, India). Before that, he worked as the vice-principal and associate professor of travel and tourism management with Pazhassi raja college of the University of Calicut (Kerala, India). In addition, for seven years, he worked with the Ministry of Higher Education (CAS Salalah), Sultanate of Oman, as faculty, major head, and system-wide coordinator of tourism subjects. Moreover, he worked as the head of the Department of Tourism at KITTS earlier on government deputation for seven years. He published seven books and a number of research papers. Moreover, he presented papers in a number of international conferences and contributed columns/articles in travel magazines.

Francesca Pagliara is Associate Professorin Transportation Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. During her Phd course, in 2000 she was visiting researcher at David Simmonds Consultancy in Cambridge. In 2002 she was research officer at the Transport Studies Unit of the University of Oxford; in 2006 she was visiting researcher  at the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems of ETH in Zurich and in 2013 she was visiting researcher at the Laboratoire des Villes Mobilité et Transports of the University of Paris-Est in France. She was visiting professor at the Transportation Research Group of the University of Southampton (2007 and 2009); at TRANSyt of the University of Madrid (2007 and 2010, 2015); at the University of Wuhan (2011); at the Department of Economics of the University of Valencia (2012); at the Institute for Transportation of the Technical University of Munich (2013); at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Ciudad Real in Spain (2016), at the Institute of Tourism and Sustainable Economic