The scope of this course is to provide the basic tools for the economic analysis of the tourism sector. Students will be able to know the microeconomic and macroeconomic foundations of the analysis of the tourism phenomenon and to consider how and to what extent tourism affects the economic system. Specifically, students will understand how:
- to analyse consumers and tourism enterprises behaviour, the demand and supply of tourism goods and services and the tourist market equilibrium;
- to identify and analyse the strategies of tourism supply;
- to identify and analyse the specific forms of the tourism market competition.