How can tourism achieve economic development? What is its relation with crisis in its various forms: economic, political, social or organizational? How recessions and depressions have interacted with tourism in the past? Does tourist development follow cyclical slowdowns? Can innovation in tourism be a product of crisis? What transformations have been and may still be generated today? These are some of the many questions raised in the book and of the challenges contemporary tourism faces. Answers, comparisons across time and space as well as valuable insight are provided by expert scholars studying the history and long trajectory of tourism and bringing forward experiences, lessons and perspectives from the European past focusing on business, finance and the State...