ECONOMY OF TOURISM

Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: MARCO PLATANIA

Expected Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding: knowledge and understanding of how the tourism industry works and the main market trends

 

Applying knowledge and understanding: knowledge will be applied to the analysis of specific cases

 

Making judgements: the student must be able to understand the tourism market, its ability to adapt together with the assessment of the sustainability of the industry in the area

 

Communication skills: the student must be able to demonstrate the conclusions reached with language properties and argumentative skills

 

Learning skills: the student will have to demonstrate that she/he has understood the methods of analysis of the tourism industry and the various economic operators that make it up

Course Structure

Frontal lessons and cases studies

Required Prerequisites

No prerequisites required

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory

Detailed Course Content

Tourism development in Italy

Tourism macroeconomic system

Tourism policies

Models of destination development

The firms of the tourism sector

Sustainability

Climate change and tourism

Textbook Information

Foreign students could choose between english or italian language program.

English language program: 

1. Dwyer, L., Forsyth, P., & Dwyer, W. (2010). Tourism economics and policy. Channel View Publications (chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21)

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
VERSIONE IN ITALIANO