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The Economics of Tourism Destinations
Candela, Guido; Figini, Paolo
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Description for The Economics of Tourism Destinations
Paperback. This book explores tourism economics, examining markets as imperfect, with asymmetric and incomplete information among agents, bounded rationality, and with strong externalities and public goods. Includes summary questions, exercises, case studies and more. Series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Num Pages: 636 pages, 39 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: KCC; KCL; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 961.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
636
Condition
New
Series
Springer Texts in Business and Economics
Number of Pages
618
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642429781
SKU
V9783642429781
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Ref
99-15
About Candela, Guido; Figini, Paolo
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 ... Read more
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