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The Economics of Tourism Destinations
Candela, Guido; Figini, Paolo; Cortes-Jimenez, Isabel
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Description for The Economics of Tourism Destinations
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 618 pages, 39 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: KC; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1061.
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
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Condition
New
Number of Pages
618
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642208737
SKU
V9783642208737
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Candela, Guido; Figini, Paolo; Cortes-Jimenez, Isabel
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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