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Behavioral Economics for Tourism

Perspectives on Business and Policy in the Travel Industry

A volume in Perspectivs in Behavioral Economics and the Economics of Beh

Book2020

Authors:

Milena S. Nikolova

Behavioral Economics for Tourism

Perspectives on Business and Policy in the Travel Industry

A volume in Perspectivs in Behavioral Economics and the Economics of Beh

Book2020

 

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Authors:

Milena S. Nikolova

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Behavioral Economics for Tourism applies behavioral perspectives to business and policy challenges in the tourism industry. The book enables professionals and early career research ... read full description

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    Chapter 1 - Primer on behavioral economics

    Pages 1-72

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    Chapter 2 - Tourism and traditional thinking

    Pages 73-98

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    Chapter 3 - Tourism of the (near) future: growing, faster, on-the-go

    Pages 99-125

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    Chapter 4 - Behavior-smart thinking for destinations

    Pages 127-172

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    Chapter 5 - Behavior-smart thinking for tourism companies

    Pages 173-210

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    Chapter 6 - Best practices and approaches using behavior-smart thinking in 10 tourism industry scenarios

    Pages 211-248

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    Conclusion

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    Index

    Pages 255-258

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Behavioral Economics for Tourism applies behavioral perspectives to business and policy challenges in the tourism industry. The book enables professionals and early career researchers to succeed by focusing on market and consumer trends, technological advancements, and the modern tourist. It covers the transformation of purchasing decisions, tourism hosting dynamics, digital mediation and disintermediation of tourism organizations, service design, and planning policy considerations. The volume concludes with case studies illustrating successful and unsuccessful behavioral tactics and strategies for tourism businesses and organizations.

Behavioral Economics for Tourism applies behavioral perspectives to business and policy challenges in the tourism industry. The book enables professionals and early career researchers to succeed by focusing on market and consumer trends, technological advancements, and the modern tourist. It covers the transformation of purchasing decisions, tourism hosting dynamics, digital mediation and disintermediation of tourism organizations, service design, and planning policy considerations. The volume concludes with case studies illustrating successful and unsuccessful behavioral tactics and strategies for tourism businesses and organizations.

Key Features

  • Provides behavioral profiling of the digitally-informed, mobile, self-managed tourist
  • Allows the tourism industry to better understand tourists, both cognitively and emotionally
  • Supports business success, technology development and sustainability in the tourism industry
  • Features case studies on behavioral tactics and strategies for use in tourism
  • Provides behavioral profiling of the digitally-informed, mobile, self-managed tourist
  • Allows the tourism industry to better understand tourists, both cognitively and emotionally
  • Supports business success, technology development and sustainability in the tourism industry
  • Features case studies on behavioral tactics and strategies for use in tourism

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978-0-12-813808-3

Language

English

Published

2020

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Academic Press

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Milena S. Nikolova

Founder and CEO, BehaviorSMART, Expert in Behavior-Smart Thinking in the Travel Industry