Title: Methodological approach to an analysis of the tourism system

Authors: Dimitriοs G. Lagos

Addresses: Tourism Economics and Tourist Business Administration, Department of Business Administration, University of the Aegean, 8, Michalon Str., GR 82100 Chios, Greece

Abstract: Tourism as a socio-economical phenomenon constitutes a complex, open system, which is always found in close contact both with its external environment, in other words the systems overbearing it, and its internal environment, that is, the functions that exist within the whole tourism industry. Consequently, the tourism system creates multiple effects on a local, regional, national and global level. It is, thus, obvious that a satisfactory analysis requires the employment of methodological tools, which will capture the perplexity of the interactions formed in the internal and external environment of this system.

Keywords: tourism system; tourism industry; systemic theory; tourism supply and demand.

DOI: 10.1504/IJASS.2010.038348

International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies, 2010 Vol.3 No.4, pp.366 - 373

Published online: 31 Jan 2011 *

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