- City and region development via tourism
- Jewish heritage tourism
- Modeling urban spatial expansion

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Krakover, S. (1983). Identification of spatiotemporal paths of spread and backwash. Geographical Analysis, 15(4), 318-329.
Krakover, S. (1985). Development of tourism resort areas in arid regions. In Desert development (pp. 271-284). Springer, Dordrecht.
Krakover, S., & Casetti, E. (1988). Directionally biased metropolitan growth: A model and a case study. Economic Geography, 64(1), 17-28.
Stern, E., & Krakover, S. (1993). The formation of a composite urban image. Geographical analysis, 25(2), 130-146.
Krakover, S. (2000). Partitioning seasonal employment in the hospitality industry. Tourism Management, 21(5), 461-471.
Krakover, S., & Borsdorf, A. (2000). Spatial dynamics of urban expansion: The case of Innsbruck, Austria. Erde, 131(2), 125-141.
Krakover, S. (2004). Tourism development - Centers versus peripheries: The Israeli experience during the 1990s. International Journal of Tourism Research, 6(2), 97-111.
Wang, Y., & Krakover, S. (2008). Destination marketing: competition, cooperation or coopetition? International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. 20(2), 126-141.
Dinis, A., & Krakover, S. (2016). Niche tourism in small peripheral towns: The case of Jewish heritage in Belmonte, Portugal. Tourism Planning & Development, 13(3), 310-332.
Krakover, S. (2017). A heritage site development model: Jewish heritage product formation in south-central Europe. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 12(1), 81-101.

Ph.D.
University of Maryland, Urban Geography

M.A.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Urban Geography and Planning

B.A.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Geography and Economics