The book aims at providing an overview of the main economic issues related totourism activities. While tourism is an important sector, contributing to more than 10% of the European Union’s GDP, research and teaching at the university level has only recently grown to a considerable level, and the field still lacks a firm research methodology. This book approaches tourism economics as anapplied field of study in which tourism markets are represented as imperfect markets, with asymmetric and incomplete information among agents, bounded rationality, and with a strong presence of externalities and public goods. The economic issues studied in the book are approached both intuitively, largely using examples and case studies, and formally, with mathematical formalizations intext boxes. Use of applied economics tools (not only the standard perfect competition model) to analyze the tourism sector. Particular emphasis on tourism destinations. Includes summary questions, exercises, case studies, analytical boxes. INDICE: Part I: Introduction to the Economics of Tourism. 1 Contents and Definitions. 2 The Importance of Tourism in the Economy. 3 The Economic of Destinations. Part II: Microeconomics of Tourism. 4 The Tourist as a Consumer. 5 More on the Tourist Choice. 6 Production in Tourism. 7 Firms Producing and Distributing the Holiday: Tour Operators and Travel Agencies. 8 Firms Producing Services: Incoming, Transports and Attractions. 9 The Tourism Market. 10 Contracts in the Tourism Market. 11 Information and Communication Technology and Tourism. Part III: The Macroeconomics of Tourism. 12 Tourism, the Local Economy and Development. 13 The International Tourism. 14 The Role of the State and the Public Organisation of Tourism. 15 Sustainable Tourism.
- ISBN: 978-3-642-20873-7
- Editorial: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 500
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés