Travel Economics

Author: Luo Mingyi (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: "Tourism Economics" is an emerging discipline that must be continuously enriched, refined, and improved. With the vigorous development of tourism economies both domestically and internationally, we must constantly use scientific theories to guide practice while also summarizing experiments and achievements to elevate them into scientific theories, thereby promoting the construction and healthy development of the tourism economics discipline system. "Tourism Economics" is guided by the theory of a socialist market economy, comprehensively and systematically elaborating on the basic concepts, principles, and methods of tourism economics. Its content includes: the concept, nature, characteristics, development features, and status and role of tourism economics in the socio-economy; the concept, composition, types, and development content and strategies of tourism products; the concept, characteristics, tourism demand laws, and elasticity of tourism demand; the concept, characteristics, regularity, and tourism supply-demand contradictions and balance of tourism supply; the concept, functions, classification, mechanisms, and development of tourism markets; the concept, characteristics, and tourism consumption methods and effects of tourism consumption; the concept of tourism investment, feasibility research and evaluation of tourism investment projects; the concept, characteristics, content, and rationalization of tourism economic structure; the analysis and evaluation of tourism economic benefits, tourism income, tourism costs, and tourism economic efficiency; the concept, significance, regularity, and key points of tourism economic sustainable development. "Tourism Economics" integrates theory and practice, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, highlighting key points while remaining concise and easy to understand. It is not only an essential professional textbook for tourism vocational students but also an important reference for researchers and management personnel engaged in tourism economics.