TY - BOOK AU - Tribe,John AU - Tribe,John ED - Ebooks Corporation. TI - The economics of recreation, leisure & tourism SN - 0750661801 : U1 - 338.4791 ECO 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Oxford PB - Elsevier KW - Leisure KW - Economic aspects KW - Tourism KW - Management KW - Leisure industry KW - Marketing KW - Electronic books KW - lcsh N1 - Previously entitled: The economics of leisure and tourism. 2nd ed. 1999; Includes bibliography (p. 430-440) and index; 1; Introduction --; 2; Recreation, leisure and tourism organizations --; 3; The market for recreation, leisure and tourism products --; 4; Demand : time preference, elasticity, and forecasting --; 5; Supply and costs --; 6; Market structure and pricing --; 7; Market intervention --; 8; The competitive, technological, political and socio-cultural environment --; 9; The economic environment --; 10; Investment in the private sector --; 11; Investment in the public sector --; 12; Income, employment and prices --; 13; Economic development and regeneration --; 14; The balance of payments and exchange rates --; 15; Globalization --; 16; Environmental impacts --; 17; Action for sustainability --; 18; Critique, alternative perspectives and change; Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL (Ebook Library) N2 - "Now in its third edition, The Economics of Recreation, Leisure and Tourism has been fully revised and updated to cover all the latest issues and changes, and more. Essentially a real world text in applied economics, it explains the necessary economic theories from first principles and applies them to a range of leisure and tourism problems and issues at the consumer, business, national and international level."--BOOK JACKET UR - http://libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/login?url=http://www.griffith.eblib.com.au/EBLWeb/patron?target=patron&extendedid=P_269920_0& ER -