Revised and updated, the fifth edition of The Economics of Tourism Destinations provides a guide to the economic aspects of tourism for students and practitioners to decipher the methods of measurement of supply, demand, trends and impacts as well as the role of tourism in development strategy for destinations and regional development. Each chapter combines theory and practice with international case studies throughout. New to this fifth edition: New content on overtourism, tourism’s vulnerability, DMO and overtourism, the new travel and tourism development index, AI and tourism, and sustainable development. Pedagogical features: new case studies, discussion questions and student activities to show theory in practice and encourage reflection on the content. Updated data throughout and reference to important new literature. Combining macro and micro aspects of economics to the tourism destination, this book is an invaluable resource for students studying this topic.
