Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis

By Harold L. Vogel

Book Overview

In this book Harold L. Vogel comprehensively and holistically examines the business economics and investment aspects of major components of the travel industry, including airlines, hotels, casinos, amusement and theme parks, cruise lines, and tourism. The book is designed as an economics-grounded text that uniquely integrates reviews of each sector's history with economics, accounting, and financial aspects and analysis. As such, it provides a concise, up-to-date reference guide for financial analysts, economists, industry executives, legislators and regulators, advertisers, and journalists interested in the economics, financing, and marketing of travel and tourism-related goods and services.
The fourth edition of this well-established text updates, refreshes, and significantly broadens the coverage of tourism economics. It includes new sections on travel law and applications of big data and artificial intelligence technologies as well as additional materialon demographic spending patterns, the online travel agency business, the pandemic's effects and affects on industry finances, expanded coverage of the cruise line industry, and information on the damage to tourist destinations caused by excessive pollution and traffic.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030633500
• ISBN13: 9783030633509
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 415 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Do you want to work on Wall Street ?

If you are an MBA/CFA candidate and are interested in the economics, drivers, and capital-market-oriented aspects of the gaming, lodging, airline, & cruise industries, I highly recommend this book. The problem with the previous review is that it was written, presumably, by someone who wanted managerial advice. This book is not for managers: it is for future Wall Street analysts. A simple look at the author's background (Vogel's) will tell you who this book's audience is. Wonderful, wonderful book: I wish more Wall Street analysts took the time to write books like this. The only way to get industry overviews like this is via Standard and Poors (S & P) or the sell-side, both of which are VERY expensive.