Tourism Economic Analysis: Theory · Method · Case: Theory · Method · Case

Author: Luo Mingyi
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: A new frontier in tourism research. This book is currently the first specialized monograph in China on the theory and methods of tourism economic analysis. The entire book focuses on key issues in tourism economic research, systematically analyzing fundamental concepts of tourism, tourist behavior, tourism markets, tourism destination development, tourism spatial structure, tourism industrial structure, tourism economic impact, and tourism development environment. It also introduces more than 40 analytical methods and quantitative techniques through case studies. Some analytical methods and techniques, such as tourism satellite accounts, tourism industrial structure productivity analysis, tourism tax classification measurement methods, and tourism market gravity prediction models, are introduced and applied for the first time. Additionally, the book selects more than 20 domestic and international case studies of tourism economic analysis and provides detailed introductions to the application of various analytical methods and techniques.