Strategic management in tourism /

• Other Authors: Moutinho, Luiz, (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Series: CABI tourism texts.
• Subjects: Tourism > Management.; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Marketing and Distribution.; Consumer Economics.; Investment, Finance and Credit.; Tourism and Travel.; Behaviour.; Consumer behaviour.; Economic development.; Empowerment.; Finance.; Forecasting.; Innovations.; Management.; Management science.; Marketing channels.; Operations research.; Planning.; Tourism.; Tourist industry.; Trends.
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This second-edition text offers new insights, updated concepts and a new articulation of themes in tourism management. Part I (chapters 1-4) is now an enlarged element of the text and combines an analysis of the new tourism environment, economic development, tourism forecasting and new trends in tou...

Table of Contents:

• The New Business Environment and Trends in Tourism / Luiz Moutinho, Ronnie Ballantyne and Shirley Rate
• Futurecast Applied to Tourism / Luiz Moutinho, Ronnie Ballantyne and Shirley Rate
• The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index as a Tool for Economic Development and Poverty Reduction / Larry Dwyer, Peter Forsyth and Wayne Dwyer
• Demand Modelling and Fuzzy Time Series Forecasting / Stephen F. Witt, Luiz Moutinho, Kun-Huang Huarng and Tiffany Hui-Kuang Yu
• Consumer Behaviour in Tourism / Luiz Moutinho, Ronnie Ballantyne and Shirley Rate
• Strategic Innovation in Tourism Business / Anne-Mette Hjalager
• The Transformation of Distribution Channels / Enrique Bigné
• Human Empowerment, Management and Tourism / Jithendran Kokkranikal, Jonathan Wilson and Paul Cronje
• Operations Management in Tourism / Geoff Southern
• Financial Management in Tourism / James Wilson and Luiz Moutinho
• Financial Impact of Tourism Marketing / James Wilson and Luiz Moutinho
• Strategic Planning and Performance Management / Luiz Moutinho, Shirley Rate and Ronnie Ballantyne
• eTourism Strategy / Dimitrios Buhalis
• Process-based Management in Tourism / Geoff Southern
• International Strategies in Tourism / Eduardo Parra-López, Vanessa Yanes Estevez and Mercedes Melchior Navarro.