The purpose of the paper is to present the fundamental equation in tourism finance that connects tourism research to empirical finance and financial econometrics. The energy industry, which includes, oil, gas and bio-energy fuels, together with the tourism industry, are two of the most important...

Tourism has become an important economic sector. This paper aims to highlight recent developments in applied tourism research. After a sketch of the background of current tourism trends, it describes ten key issues and concerns in tourism followed by an outline of ten operational research...

"Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also of substantial economic importance in the United States, sufficient to warrant the Bureau of Economic Analysis's establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this...