Curriculum Tourism & Travel Economics
Tourism & Travel Economics
Why travel is one of the world's biggest industries - where tourist money goes, overtourism, tourist taxes, hotel pricing, ecotourism, and accessible travel for everyone.
- Tourism as an Industry How big the global tourism industry is, why economists count tourism as an export, and which countries depend on it most. 📄 Read-aloud
- Where Tourist Money Goes: Multipliers and Leakage How tourist spending ripples through a local economy, and why much of it can leak away to foreign companies and imports. 📄 Read-aloud
- Overtourism: When Too Many Visitors Arrive What happens when popular destinations attract more visitors than they can handle, and how cities from Venice to Barcelona are responding. 📄 Read-aloud
- Tourist Taxes and Entry Fees How destinations charge visitors through hotel taxes, entry fees and visa charges, who ends up paying, and what the money is used for. 📄 Read-aloud
- Seasonality: Boom and Bust Every Year How tourism's seasonal swings affect jobs, prices and businesses, and how destinations try to spread demand across the year. 📄 Read-aloud
- How Hotels Set Prices Why hotel room prices change so much, from revenue management and online booking platforms to the economics of a perishable product. 📄 Read-aloud
- Tourism & Travel Economics: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on tourism exports, leakage, overtourism, tourist taxes and hotel pricing. 5 questions
- Short-Term Rentals and Local Housing How platforms like Airbnb changed travel and what research finds about their effect on local rents and neighbourhoods. 📄 Read-aloud
- Ecotourism and Conservation How tourism can pay for protecting wildlife and nature, what makes it work, and the risk that it harms the places it relies on. 📄 Read-aloud
- Medical Tourism Why patients travel abroad for treatment, why countries like India and Thailand attract them, and the benefits and risks involved. 📄 Read-aloud
- Accessible Tourism: A Market Often Overlooked Why travel that works for disabled and older people is both a right and a large business opportunity that many destinations miss. 📄 Read-aloud
- What the Pandemic Did to Tourism How COVID-19 caused the worst crisis in tourism's history, which places were hit hardest, and how the industry recovered. 📄 Read-aloud
- Tourism in India's Economy The role of tourism in India's economy, from domestic pilgrimages to foreign visitors, and the policies aimed at growing it. 📄 Read-aloud
- Pilgrimage Economies: Faith and Tourism How religious travel to places like Prayagraj, Tirupati and Varanasi supports huge local economies, and the challenges of crowds, infrastructure and carrying capacity. 📄 Read-aloud