TY - BOOK ID - 7689840 TI - The Economics of Tourism Destinations AU - Candela, Guido. AU - Figini, Paolo. PY - 2012 SN - 3642429785 3642208738 3642208746 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Hospitality. KW - Tourism -- History. KW - Tourism. KW - Tourism KW - Geography KW - Business & Economics KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Economic Theory KW - Travel & Tourism KW - Holiday industry KW - Operators, Tour (Industry) KW - Tour operators (Industry) KW - Tourism industry KW - Tourism operators (Industry) KW - Tourist industry KW - Tourist trade KW - Tourist traffic KW - Travel industry KW - Visitor industry KW - Economic aspects KW - Microeconomics. KW - International economics. KW - Regional economics. KW - Spatial economics. KW - Economics. KW - International Economics. KW - Regional/Spatial Science. KW - Service industries KW - National tourism organizations KW - Travel KW - Economics KW - Regional planning KW - Regionalism KW - Space in economics KW - Economic policy, Foreign KW - Economic relations, Foreign KW - Economics, International KW - Foreign economic policy KW - Foreign economic relations KW - Interdependence of nations KW - International economic policy KW - International economics KW - New international economic order KW - Economic policy KW - International relations KW - Economic sanctions KW - Price theory KW - Spatial economics KW - Regional economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7689840 AB - 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. ER -