The Economics of Recreation, Leisure and Tourism
By John Tribe

Index

A

Accelerator principle, 228 229
Advertising, 51, 123
Airbus Industrie, 80, 230 231
Air France, 9
Air India, 29
Allocative efficiency, 135
Allocative mechanism, 6
Arsenal FC, 94
Attitudes, 182
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC), 310
Australian Tourist Commission (ATC), 38
Average costs, 96
Average rate of return, 226

B

Balance of payments, 311, 318 319
and government policy, 320
trends, 319
Barriers to entry, 164 165
Bear market, 36
Best value, 152
Biodiversity, 360
Black markets, 61
Blue flag, 391
Boom, 204
British Airports Authority, 7, 39
British Airways, 7, 129 130, 397
Brundtland report, 379
Bulgaria, 302
Bull market, 36
Buying and selling economies of scale, 90

C

Capital, 93, 286
Capital account, 317
Capital costs, 222
Carbon trading, 389
Carrying capacity, 15, 367
CenterParcs, 164
Centrally planned economy, 6, 140
Ceteris paribus, 12, 44
Channel Tunnel, 277
China, 294 295, 328
Circular flow of income, 257
City boosterism, 241
Chez Gerard, 101
Climate change, 360
Coca Cola Company, 348
Code sharing, 340
Command and control, 383
Comparative advantage, 309
Competitive environment, 162
Competitive rivalry, 169
Complementary goods, 47
Compulsory competitive tendering, 151
Concentration ratio, 141
Conglomerate merger, 103
Constant returns to scale, 98
Consumer sovereignty, 135 137, 149
Contracting out, 151
Cost-benefit analysis, 14, 240 241, 383 384
Costs, 56, 202 203
Cross subsidization, 169
Cross-price elasticity of demand, 79 80
Cruise industry, 55
Culture, 182
Cultural heritage capital, 286
Current account, 312

D

Debt, 198
Debentures, 34
Declutter, 103
Deflation, 321
Deforestation, 373
Deindustrialization, 14, 263
Delphi technique, 83
Demand, 45 54
Demerit goods, 139
Demographics, 180 182
Copyright John Tribe 2004 under license agreement with Books24x7
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