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The economics of recreation, leisure and tourism / John Tribe.

By: Tribe, John.
Contributor(s): Tribe, John. Economics of leisure and tourism.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Elsevier, 2005Edition: Third edition.Description: ix, 445 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0750661801; 9780750661805.Subject(s): Leisure -- Economic aspects | Recreation -- Economic aspects | Tourism -- Economic aspects | Leisure industry -- Management | Tourism -- ManagementAdditional physical formats: Electronic version:.: The economics of recreation, leisure and tourism.DDC classification: 790.069 Also available in electronic form.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part One: Organizations and markets -- Recreation, leisure and tourism organizations -- The market for recreation, leisure and tourism products -- Part Two: Further issues of demand and supply -- Demand: time preference, elasticity and forecasting -- Supply and costs -- Part Three: Markets in practice -- Market structure and pricing -- Market intervention -- Part Four: The external operating environment -- The competitive, technological, political and socio-cultural environment -- The economic environment -- Part Five: Investment -- Investment in the private sector -- Investment in the public sector -- Part Six: Economic impacts -- Income, employment and prices -- Economic development and regeneration -- Part Seven: The global economy -- The balance of payments and exchange rates -- Globalization -- Part Eight: Environmental economics -- Environmental impacts -- Action for sustainability -- Critique, alternative perspectives and change.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Explains economic theories from first principles and applies them to a range of leisure and tourism problems and issues at the consumer, business, national and international level. This book discusses themes such as: How is the provision of leisure and tourism determined and could it be provided in a different way?

Previous edition: published as The economics of leisure and tourism. 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-440) and index.

Introduction -- Part One: Organizations and markets -- Recreation, leisure and tourism organizations -- The market for recreation, leisure and tourism products -- Part Two: Further issues of demand and supply -- Demand: time preference, elasticity and forecasting -- Supply and costs -- Part Three: Markets in practice -- Market structure and pricing -- Market intervention -- Part Four: The external operating environment -- The competitive, technological, political and socio-cultural environment -- The economic environment -- Part Five: Investment -- Investment in the private sector -- Investment in the public sector -- Part Six: Economic impacts -- Income, employment and prices -- Economic development and regeneration -- Part Seven: The global economy -- The balance of payments and exchange rates -- Globalization -- Part Eight: Environmental economics -- Environmental impacts -- Action for sustainability -- Critique, alternative perspectives and change.

CIT Module ECON 6004 - Supplementary reading

CIT Module ECON 7006 - Core reading

Also available in electronic form.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Organisations and markets
  • Organisations
  • Markets
  • Further issues of demand and supply
  • Demand: Time preference, Elasticity and forecasting
  • Supply and costs
  • Markets in practice Market structure and pricing
  • Market intervention
  • The external operating environment
  • The competitive, technological, political and sociocultural environment
  • The macro-economic environment politics and socio-culture
  • Investment
  • Investment in the private sector
  • Investment in the public sector
  • Economic impacts
  • Income, employment and prices
  • Economic development and regeneration
  • The global economy
  • The balance of Payments and exchange rates
  • Globalisation
  • Environmental economics
  • Environmental impacts
  • Sustainability
  • Critique
  • Critique, alternative perspectives and change
  • Political, and social economy?
  • Index