Quantitative Tourism Industry Analysis

Аннотация

The aim of this book is to contribute towards stimulating those people working in the hospitality and tourism area, particularly students and practitioners, towards learning more about the TSAs and their underlying methodologies. Having identified a gap between the level of preparedness of hospitality-tourism students to learn TSA, and the overwhelming contents of generic I-O/SAM materials often written for PhD students in economics and regional sciences, my aim is to attempt to fill this gap by familiarizing hospitality and tourism readers with useful applications of the relevant economic modeling, with minimal contents of higher algebra, so that they can understand the concepts of TSA. This book is not able to offer a panacea to all the problems of the tourism industry as an academic subject. It will most likely offer little new knowledge to advanced economics researchers in the field of tourism, while I sincerely hope that more students in hospitality and tourism programs around the world will be enticed to learn more about required methodologies for tourism economic impact studies and TSAs.