FN ISI Export Format VR 1.0 PT J TI The Impact of River Cruises in Franconia on Local Destinations AF Hentschel, Jörg AU Hentschel, J AB The Master Thesis aims at discussing the economic impact of river cruise tourism in Franconia and the attitude of residents towards this tourism sector with focus on Bamberg and Nuremberg. These two cities were chosen due to the fact that Bamberg is a typical stopover destination for river cruise tourism and Nuremberg partly a stopover destination and a destination with embarkation / debarkation. An overview of Franconia and the current market situation of river cruise tourism as well as a review of current literature on the economic impact of tourism and the attitude of residents to tourism are given in chapter two. Within the chapters three, four and five the research approach is explained and discussed in more detail. This is followed by the most essential chapters, the results, the practical implications and the conclusion. First, details about the data results gained through the undertaken questionnaire (cruise pas-sengers), the online survey (local population) as well as interviews with the tour opera-tors and agencies will be described elaborately and conclusions on specific aspects will be explained and summarized. Second, based on these findings, different recommen-dations for the future development of river cruise tourism are carried out. All in all the results of this Master Thesis indicate that river cruise tourism is of economic relevance in Bamberg and Nuremberg. ER