Abstract
This Tourism Economics Special Focus presents a selection of papers, refereed and revised for publication, presented at the Consumer Behaviour in Tourism Symposium 2011 (CBTS2011). The Symposium was organized by the Competence Centre in Tourism Management and Tourism Economics (TOMTE) of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Founded in 2008, TOMTE initiates, organizes, promotes and conducts research in the areas of tourism management and marketing, tourism economics and related areas relevant to the tourism sector, including evaluations of the impact of new economic, societal and technological developments on tourism industries and of tourism on regional economies and societies.