Tourism Economics and Policy

by Dwyer, Larry; Forsyth, Peter; Dwyer, Wayne

• ISBN13: 9781845411527
• ISBN10: 1845411528
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-27
• Publisher: Channel View Publications

Summary

Tourism Economics and Policy combines a comprehensive treatment of economic concepts and applications in tourism contexts. Topics include tourism demand and forecasting, tourism supply and pricing, measuring the impacts and benefits of changes in tourism demand, tourism investment and infrastructure, tourism taxation, aviation, tourism and the environment (including climate change) and destination competitiveness. The text provides an excellent basis for students to appreciate the relevance of economic analysis to the solution of real life tourism issues and as an input into tourism policy formulation.

Author Biography

Larry Dwyer and Peter Forsyth are internationally reputed tourism economists who have made substantial contributions to the discipline over many years particularly in the area of tourism policy analysis. Larry Dwyer is Qantas Professor of Tourism Economics at the University of New South Wales, Australia while Peter Forsyth is Professor of Economics at Monash University, Australia. Wayne Dwyer, formerly senior lecturer in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney specialises in managerial economics.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Overview Tourism Demand and Forecasting

Chapter 2 The Demand for Tourism Experiences

Chapter 3 Forecasting Tourism Demand Tourism Supply and Pricing Strategies

Chapter 4 The Supply of Tourism Products and Services

Chapter 5 Strategic Pricing in Tourism Distinguishing the Economic Contribution, Economic Impacts and Net Benefits of Tourism

Chapter 6 Tourism's Economic Contribution, Economic Impacts and Net Benefits Measuring Tourism's Economic Contribution, Impacts and Net Benefits

Chapter 7 The Economic Contribution of Tourism: Tourism Satellite Accounts

Chapter 8 Economic Impacts of Tourism using Input-Output Models

Chapter 9 Economic Impacts of Tourism Using CGE Models

Chapter 10 Cost Benefit Analysis in Tourism

Chapter 11 Economic Evaluation of Events Tourism Investment

Chapter 12 Investment by Tourism Firms

Chapter 13 Investing in Tourism Infrastructure

Chapter 14 Foreign Investment in Tourism Taxation and Tourism

Chapter 15 Taxation of Tourism Tourism and Aviation

Chapter 16 Tourism and Aviation Tourism and the Environment

Chapter 17 Valuing the Environmental Impacts of Tourism

Chapter 18 Economic Instruments and Environmental Protection in Tourism

Chapter 19 Tourism and Climate Change Destination Competitiveness

Chapter 20 Destination Competitiveness Future Directions

Chapter 21 Future Directions in Tourism Economics