ATE 2014 is the 5th edition of the conference series on Advances in Tourism Economics. The 2014 conference is jointly organized by the Portuguese Association for Tourism Research and Development (APIDT) and the Tourism Research Centre of Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa. This year's conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 15 - 16 May 2014, at the premises of Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa. This year’s conference aims to bring together prominent economists and other researchers with a special interest on the tourism phenomenon to debate recent advances in tourism economics and management. By focusing on the theme of recent advances, ATE 2014 will provide another opportunity for gathering, analysing, and debating state-of-the-art academic research on this recent field of economic science.

The ATE conference series has now consolidated its objectives twofold, while aiming at bringing together researchers interested on the tourism phenomenon to debate recent advances in the field we have also developed over the years an associated publication series strongly committed at publishing a selection of papers presented in our conferences. Henceforth, a selection of the papers presented at ATE 2014 will be again proposed for publication either in a special issue of the Journal Tourism Economics and/or at a another book to be edited by Springer-Verlag.

Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa

Associação Portuguesa para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Turismo

Prof. Doutor Álvaro António Calado Afonso Matias
Professor of Economics and Tourism Research
School of Economics and Business
Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa

Prof.ª Doutora Eng.ª Maria Manuela Martins Saraiva Sarmento Coelho
President of the Research Centre in Tourism Innovation and Services
Professor of Management and Tourism
School of Economics and Business
Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa

Prof. Doutor João Fernando Guerreiro Romão
Professor of Tourism
School of Economics and Business
Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa

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