researchers. Backpackers, too, might find this book informative, if only to raise their awareness that traveling individually does not necessarily imply a better, more socially responsible tourism. Gu ¨nter Spreitzhofer: Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. E-mail <guenter.spreitzhofer@univie.ac.at> Assigned 10 December 2007. Submitted 8 February 2008. Accepted 15 February 2008 doi:10.1016/j.annals.2008.02.007 Managing Tourism Destinations Edited by Andreas Papatheodorou. Edward Elgar Publishing 2006, xxvi + 650 pp (figures, tables, name index) Price Hb US$280.00. ISBN 1-84376-991-3 Marianna Sigala University of the Aegean, Greece This anthology of previously published journal articles covers a wide range of topics in destination management. The papers comprising this volume are grouped into four sections by their conceptual or empirical contributions as well as their implications for policy-making. Because the book represents a compila- tion of papers previously published in academic journals, one should not com- ment on individual papers, but rather on the methodology used for selecting the papers as well as the adequacy of coverage of topics related to destination management. The introduction explains the methodology for selecting the articles. Initially, a keyword search in the Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism Abstracts of CABI pro- duced a list of 3,055 journal publications. This was reduced to a ‘‘short list’’ of more than 700 papers using the following criteria: journal publications only (no working papers, book chapters, or conference proceedings), and more narrowly, publications in tourism-specific journals only. Papers using advanced mathematical models and methodologies were excluded in order to ensure the volume would be accessible for a general destination management audience. Only articles published between 1980 and 2003 were considered. Papers that were pure case studies were excluded. The editors also strove to avoid having multiple papers by the same principal author. This list of 700 potential papers was then reduced to 44 articles on the basis of a balancing of the following subjective criteria: a) perceived ranking of academic journals in tourism and hospitality; b) reputation of the authors as leading thinkers; and c) the inclusion of other tourism scholars with a good potential but limited recognition so far. Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 836–838, 2008 Printed in Great Britain 836 Publications in review/Annals of Tourism Research 35 (2008) 833–846