The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry or Money and Capital Markets 3e

The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry: A Supply-Side Analysis

Author: Dimitri Ioannides

The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry examines whether tourism can be defined as an industry. Bridging the gap between tourism research and economic geography, the authors by bring together leading academics in geography, planning and tourism, to explain tourism's definitions. Providing detailed analyses of key sectors, such as tour operators, airlines and the hotel industry from a broad international perspective, and backed by a broad range of international studies, the book also explores issues such as business cycles, labor dynamics, entrepreneurship and the role of the state in tourism and concludes that the production of tourism-related services has characteristics commonly associated with "harder" production sectors, such manufacturing and producer services.

Table of Contents:

	Illustrations
	Tables
	Notes on contributors
	Foreword
	Preface
1	Introduction: exploring the economic geography and tourism nexus	1
Pt. A	Conceptual and definitional issues: barriers to theory	15
2	The tourist industry and economic geography: missed opportunities	17
3	Tourism as an industry: debates and concepts	31
4	The tourism production system: the logic of industrial classification	53
Pt. B	The demand-side	77
5	The determinants of tourism demand: a theoretical perspective	79
Pt. C	Neo-Fordism and flexibility: a sectoral approach	97
6	Neo-Fordism and flexible specialization in the travel industry: dissecting the polyglot	99
7	Distribution technologies and destination development: myths and realities	123
8	Tour operators: the gatekeepers of tourism	139
9	The airline industry and tourism	159
10	Continuity and change in the hotel sector: some evidence from Montreal	180
Pt. D	Global-local nexus: place commodification, entrepreneurship, and labor	197
11	The institutional setting - tourism and the state	199
12	Tourism and economic development policy in US urban areas	220
13	Entrepreneurship, small business culture and tourism development	235
14	Tourism in the Third Italy: labor and social-business networks	256
Pt. E	Cycles and innovations	271
15	Economic business cycles and the tourism life-cycle concept	273
Pt. F	Synthesis and new directions	285
16	Conclusion: the commodification of tourism	287
	Bibliography	293
	Index	323

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Money and Capital Markets 3e

Author: Miles Livingston

Money and Capital Markets offers thorough coverage of financial institutuions and markets for upper level endergraduate and MBA students.
Prerequisites for the text are an introductory finance course and basic knowledge of algebra. Money and capital Markets presents the major theories of the impact of inflation, government spending, and monetary policy upon interest rates. In order to emphasize factors determining the prices and risks of financial instruments, descriptive information about institutions is kept to a minimum. The links between different types of securities are shown through risk-free arbitrage. this allows lecturers and students to establish frameworks for linking different types of bonds and connecting futures markets with spot markets.
The third edition features:

• Updated institutional information, including coverage of US treasury auctions, investment banking, brokers and dealers, bank regulation, and mortagage markets.


• Extensively revised end of chapter problems challenging the student to think critically.


• More user friendly chapters on spot and forward interest rates, coupon-bearing bands, bond investment risks and features.