- 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
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- About this Textbook
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The book aims at providing an overview of the main economic issues related to tourism 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 an applied 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 in text boxes.
- About the authors
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Professor Dr. Guido Candela works and teaches Economics of Tourism at the Faculty of Economics in Rimini, University of Bologna, one of the leading faculties in Italy for specialisation of Tourism. He is the former Dean of the same Faculty.
Paolo Figini is Assoc.Professor of Economic Policy in the Department of Economics at Faculty of Economics (Rimini) and University of Bologna. He is Director of the European Master in "Tourism Economics and Management".
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Introduction: Economics of Tourism, Economics of Destinations, Tourism Studies and Other Related Issues
Pages 1-13
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Definitions and Key Concepts
Pages 17-44
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The Tourism Sector in the Economy
Pages 45-72
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The Economics of Tourism Destinations
Pages 73-130
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The Consumer Theory Applied to the Tourist
Pages 133-161
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Economics of Tourism Destinations
- Authors
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- Guido Candela
- Paolo Figini
- Series Title
- Springer Texts in Business and Economics
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-20874-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-20874-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-20873-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-42978-1
- Series ISSN
- 2192-4333
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 618
- Topics
