1st Edition
Tourism Economics Financial Inclusion, Performance Strategies, and Case Studies
Introduction
Tzung-Cheng (TC) Huan and Shenglin Ben
Part I: Financial Inclusion, Constraints, and Conservation in Tourism
1. How does financial inclusion influence tourism demand? Empirical evidence from emerging markets and developing economies
Sasidaran Gopalan and Usman Khalid
2. Reviving Tourism in Sudan—Political and Financial Constraints
H. Leo Theuns
3. Mobile money for promoting conservation and community-based tourism and ecotourism in underdeveloped regions
Sagar Singh
4. Tourism's Potential for Financing Conservation Areas: A Study of Kufri-Chail-Naldehra Area of Himachal Pradesh, India
R.N. Batta
Part II: Financial Strategies and Performance in Tourism Industry
5. Financial Ratios as Predictors of Income in The Hotel Industry
Agnes L. Defranco
6. Entrepreneurial behaviour, firm size and financial performance: the case of rural tourism family firms
Andreas Kallmuenzer and Mike Peters
7. Crisis, firm characteristics and stock performance: evidence from Hospitality and Tourism sector
Mohammad Shameem Jawed, Archit Vinod Tapar and Amol S. Dhaigude
8. Hitting the jackpot: what drives casino hotel stock returns' predictability?
Thach Pham, Deepa Bannigidadmath, Edmund Goh and Anna Golab
9. COVID-19: hotel industry response to the pandemic evolution and to the public sector economic measures
Oriol Anguera-Torrell, Juan Pedro Aznar-Alarcón and Jordi Vives-Perez
Part III: Case Studies on Economic and Financial Aspects in Tourism
10. Nature-based Tourism Resources Privatization in China: A System Dynamic Analysis of Opportunities and Risks
Xiang Huang (Louis), Jigang Bao and Alan A. Lew
11. World's Largest Privatised Game Reserve
Liz Yager
12. Raising Tourism Funds on International Capital Markets: Benefits, Problems and Strategies for China
Zheng Gu
13. Towards the Development of Recreational Fisheries in Kerala: An Economic Perspective
Ramakrishnan Korakandy
14. Stability of Caribbean Countries: The Case of Tourist-Oriented Economies
William D. Gunther and Mary Fish
15. Tourism Resources in Developing Economies—Complexities of Limited Choice
Chris Ryan
16. Tourism Planning in Developing Economies
Mahmuda Shafi
Biography
Tzung-Cheng (TC) Huan is Professor at National Chiayi University and a former President of Tainan University of Technology.
Shenglin Ben is Professor and Dean at the International Business School and Academy of Internet Finance, Zhejiang University, and a former China Country Head of ABN AMRO, HSBC, and China CEO of JP Morgan Chase Bank.
