Part I: Introduction.- Part II: Getting There.- Part III: Being There.- Part IV: Doing Things There.- Part V: Roundup.
Harold L. Vogel was ranked as top entertainment industry analyst for
ten years by Institutional Investor magazine, was the senior
entertainment industry analyst at Merrill Lynch for seventeen years, and was
inducted into the magazine’s All-America Research Team Hall of Fame in 2011.He
is a chartered financial analyst (C.F.A.) and served on the New York State
Governor’s Motion Picture and Television Advisory Board and as an adjunct
professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He also taught
at the University of Southern California and at the Cass Business School in
London. He earned his Ph.D. in financial economics from the University of
London, an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia, and an M.A. in economics from
New York University. Currently, he heads an independent investment and
consulting firm in New York City while often writing and speaking on investment
topics related to travel, entertainment and media, and extreme market events. Harold Vogel is the author
of Financial Market Bubbles and Crashes (2010) and Entertainment
Industry Economics 9th edition (2015), both published by
Cambridge University Press, and Travel Industry Economics 3nd
edition (2016) published by Springer
In this book Harold L.
Vogel comprehensively examines the business economics and investment aspects of
major components of the travel industry, including airlines, hotels, casinos,
amusement and theme parks and tourism. The book is designed as
an economics-grounded text that uniquely integrates a review of each
sector's history, economics, accounting, and financial analysis
perspectives and relationships. As such, it provides a concise,
up-to-date reference guide for financial analysts, economists, industry
executives, legislators and regulators, and journalists interested in the
economics, financing and marketing of travel and tourism related goods and
services. The third edition of this well-established text updates,
refreshes, and significantly broadens the coverage of tourism economics. It
further includes new sections on power laws and price-indexing effects and also
introduces new charts comparing airline and hotel revenue changes and lodging
revenue changes in relation to GDP.