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The Long Tail concept refers to the Internet-based economy that has enabled company success through a focus on highly specialized services and products that are not in high volume demand, but maybe in high-value demand. The concept of the post-tourist, for example, is a Long Tail phenomenon.

The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail.

"Long Tail Tourism: Implications of the distributed business model for the tourism and travel industry"

Les aplicacions del model al turisme són evidents i, les seves aplicacions, necessàries per l'evolució de l'activitat turística. Si el turisme és una activitat canviant, tal i com ho és el mercat de la demanda, ens hem d'adaptar a les noves tendències. Els nous sistemes de difusió, les noves tendències de la demanda, tot el que queda reflectit al model de Chris Anderson.

Bibliografia propuesta. Autores: Alexis Papathanassis.