Advances in Tourism Economics : New development

Pedro Telhado Pereira, António Almeida, António Gomes de
Menezes and José Cabral Vieira

dc.contributor.author	Pedro Telhado Pereira, António Almeida, António Gomes de Menezes and José Cabral Vieira
dc.contributor.editor	Álvaro Matias · Peter Nijkamp · Manuela Sarmento
dc.date.accessioned	2018-11-30T11:42:48Z
dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-21T14:37:31Z
dc.date.available	2018-11-30T11:42:48Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-21T14:37:31Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-7908-2124-6
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.215.13.25/handle/123456789/26403
dc.description	With the advent of rising mobility and leisure time together with a structural ten- dency for declining airfares, tourism has become a sector of major significance in modern economies. There is a wealth of literature on the motives of tourists, on the sustainability aspects of large-scale tourism, on the expected economic and social consequences of tourism in host countries and regions, on the attractiveness of dif- ferent localities and tourist sites (e.g., beaches, historico-cultural heritage, nature etc.), or on local or regional initiatives to promote tourism (e.g., through tourism packages, e-services etc.). Tourism research has indeed become a booming and timely research approach in contemporaneous economics. There is indeed a host of descriptive, qualitative and policy-oriented research, but applied and quantitatively-oriented economic research is still underrepresented. Fortunately, we have witnessed in the past years an upsurge of model-based eco- nomic research in the tourist sector, which builds on powerful research tools in quantitative economics, such as discrete choice models, social accounting matrices, data envelopment analysis, impact assessment models or partial computable equilib- rium models including environmental externalities. The present volume originates from this novel research spirit in tourism economics and aims to offer an attractive collection of operational research tools and approaches in tourism research. Orig- inality and advanced methodology have been the major criteria for selecting these contributions. They form an appealing record of modern tourism economic research and position tourism economics within the strong tradition of quantitative economic research, with due attention for both the demand and supply side of the tourism sec- tor, including technological and logistic advances in the sector. This volume offers thus examples of pioneering research in tourism economics.
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Physica-Verlag	en_US
dc.subject	Physica-Verlag	en_US
dc.title	Advances in Tourism Economics : New development	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US