Estudia

Horaris:

• Understanding how demand and supply interact and gaining knowledge of the workings of tourism markets
• Mastering the foudations of economic analysis and applying them to the analysis of leisure and tourism
• Analysing and identifying the relevant elements of issues related to leisure and tourism and solving problems

1. Introduction

2. Organizations and markets

          2.1. Recreation, leisure and tourism organizations

          2.2. The market for recreation, leisure and tourism products

          2.3. Demand: time preference, elasticity and forecasting

          2.4. Supply and costs

          2.5. Market structure

          2.6. Market intervention

3. The external operating environment

          3.1. The competitive, technological, political and socio-cultural environment

          3.2. The economic environment

4. Investment

          4.1. Investment in the private sector

          4.2. Investment in the public sector

5. Economic impacts

          5.1. Income, employment and prices

          5.2. Economic development and regeneration

6. Global issues

          6.1. The balance of payments and exchange rates

          6.2. Globalization

7. Environmental issues

          7.1. Environmental impacts

          7.2. Action for sustainability

          7.3. Critique, alternative perspectives and change

• Tribe, John (2005). The Economics of recreation, leisure & tourism (3rd). Butterworth-Heinemann. Catàleg
• Reece, William S. (2009). The economics of tourism. Pearson. Catàleg
• Cook, Roy; Yale, Laura; Marqua, Joseph (2009). Tourism: the business of travel (4th). Pearson. Catàleg
• Pindyck, Robert S. (cop. 2009 ). Microeconomics (7th ed.). New Jersey: Pearson Education/Prentice Hall. Catàleg
• Burda, Michael C. (cop. 1997 ). Macroeconomics : a european text (2nd ed). Oxford [etc.]: Oxford University Press. Catàleg
• McIntosh, Robert (cop. 1995 ). Tourism : principles, practices, philosophies (7th ed.). New York (etc.): John Wiley & Sons. Catàleg

Activitats d'avaluació:

The overall qualification of the course will be the result of a compulsory exam (see, however, the instructions below) and optional hand-in exercises and problems.

For students who do not hand in all the exercises and problems, the final overall qualification of the course will result from the score obtained in the final exam.

For students who hand in all the exercises and problems, the final exam will represent 20% of the final overall qualification of the course, the hand-in exercises 50%, and the hand-in problems 30%.

Sitting in the final exam will be optional for students who hand in all the exercises and problems and achieve an average (arithmetic mean) qualification of 6 out of 10.

Lecture Power Points, hand-in exercises, and problems will be posted on "La meva UdG".

The main text used in the course (required reading) will be: Tribe, John (2005), The Economics of Recreation, Leisure & Tourism, Butterworth-Heinemann.

The rest of texts in the bibliography are intended as supplementary (optional) reading.