Tourism is relevant for local regulation and policies for two broad families of reasons: on one side, politicians, the local business lobbies, trade unions and pressure groups push for tourist inflows for political and economic reasons, with a structure of incentives that are not always aligned; on the other side, tourist flows, and their seasonal profile, have a big impact on local services and infrastructures and raise the issue of cost sharing among tourists, taxpayers, the government, and future generations. That is why an efficient and carefully designed regulation of local public services is of outmost importance in such contexts.The course intends to highlight the most relevant issues for local regulation in tourist sites: it will focus on outlining the infrastructure endowment, defining the relevant local actors, incentives, information endowment and exchange, assessing the cost structure of additional tourist flows and the direct and indirect revenues. Classes will combine some theoretical framing with concrete and practical examples derived from field research and real case studies.