Analysis of the Global Price Competitiveness of Tourism with particular reference to Australia

价格竞争力是旅游流量的关键决定因素，本项目将衡量和解释全球竞争力格局。在研究人员早期工作的基础上，将扩大竞争力的衡量标准，并开发一种衡量包价旅游竞争力的新方法。产业生产率的跨国差异是竞争力差异的主要原因；生产率将用投入和产出价格来衡量。将分析生产率的模式，并检验在其他服务工业中观察到的生产率与实际收入成反比的假设。

Price competitiveness is a key determinant of tourism flows, and this project will measure and explain global patterns in competitiveness. Building on earlier work by the investigators, it will expand the measures of competitiveness and develop a new method for measuring competitiveness in package tourism. Cross country differences in industry productivity are a primary reason why competitiveness differs; productivity will be measured using input and output prices. Patterns in productivity will be analysed, and the hypothesis that productivity varies inversely with real incomes, observed in other service industries, will be tested.