International Handbook on the Economics of Tourism

Edited by Larry Dwyer and Peter Forsyth

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This highly accessible and comprehensive Handbook presents a cutting edge discussion of the state of tourism economics and its likely directions in future research. Leading researchers in the field explore a wide range of topics including: demand and forecasting, supply, transport, taxation and infrastructure, evaluation and application for policy-making. Each chapter includes a discussion of its relevance and importance to the tourism economics literature, an overview of its main contributions and themes, a critical evaluation of existing literature and an outline of issues for further conceptual and applied research.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 9781843761044
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (89)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781843761044.xml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 A Survey of Tourism Demand Modelling Practice: Issues and Implications

Christine Lim

Ch 2 Microfoundations of Tourist Choice

Andreas Papatheodorou

Ch 3 Tourism Demand Forecasting

Haiyan Song and Lindsay Turner

Ch 4 Structure Conduct Performance and Industrial Organisation in Tourism

Brian Davies and Paul Downward

Ch 5 Industrial Economics and Pricing Issues within Tourism Enterprises and Markets

Adrian O. Bull

Ch 6 Travel and Tourism Intermediaries

Nevenka Cavlek

Ch 7 Pricing Principles for Natural and Cultural Attractions in Tourism

John Loomis and Kreg Lindberg

Ch 8 The Evolution of Alliances in the Airline Industry

Frédéric Dimanche and Dominique Jolly

Ch 9 Airline Alliances and Tourism

Clive L. Morley

Ch 10 Aviation and Tourism

Peter Forsyth

Ch 11 Taxation of Travel and Tourism

James Mak

Ch 12 Public Sector Investment in Tourism Infrastructure

Marcia Sakai

Ch 13 Tourism Satellite Accounts

Ray Spurr

Ch 14 CGE Tourism Analysis and Policy Modeling

Adam Blake, Jonathan Gillham and M. Thea Sinclair

Ch 15 Economic Evaluations of Special Events

Larry Dwyer, Peter Forsyth and Ray Spurr

Ch 16 Valuation of Tourism's Natural Resources

Clement Tisdell

Ch 17 Implications of Human Capital Analysis in Tourism

Javier Rey-Maquieira, Maria Tugores and Vicente Ramos

Ch 18 Tourism Information Technology

Pauline J. Sheldon

Ch 19 Destination Competitiveness

Geoffrey I. Crouch and J.R. Brent Ritchie

Ch 20 Tourism Destination Specialisation

Mondher Sahli

Ch 21 Globalisation

John Fletcher and John Westlake

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eebook:2827

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this book

More books in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().