... the highly competitive tourism markets. Proposals on scanning the tourism business environment are also presented and their importance discussed and illustrated. Originality/value From various angles of analysis, the final articles for this issue explore the trends and issues affecting the tourism...

...Jorge Costa; Mónica Montenegro; João Gomes Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to critically review the contributions made by this theme issue to the literature by examining key trends in worldwide tourism and approaches for scanning its business environment. Design/methodology/approach...

...Jorge Costa; Daniela Rodrigues; João Bastos Purpose In this paper, the barometer of tourism (BoT), as a new approach to environmental scanning, is presented and discussed. A unique research methodology developed by IPDT, with the aim of analyzing prospectively the tourism and hospitality sectors...