Publication in Review: Keller, P., & Bieger, T. (Eds.). (2007). Productivity in Tourism: Fundamentals and Concepts for Achieving Growth and Competitiveness. International Tourism Research and Concepts (Vol. 2). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag

• foster friendly relations among its members; • promote scientific activity on the part of its members, in particular by developing personal contacts, providing documentation, and facilitating exchange of views and experience; • support the activity of scientific institutes of tourism, or other centers of research and education specializing in tourism, and develop relations between them, as well as between them and the members of the Association; • organize and cooperate in congresses and other meetings and courses on tourism of a scientific nature (AIEST, 2000).