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CODE 83700
ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR MAT/09
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • IMPERIA
SEMESTER 2° Semester
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

OVERVIEW

The course introduces students to critical analysis of decision-making problems in tourism and the use of methods of decision theory and operational research. Particular attention is paid to revenue management techniques and models to solve real applications.

 

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at providing tools to face decision making problems in turism.  It will provide decision theory and operational research  techniques that will be applied to businesses and tourism systems and to revenue management problems.

 

TEACHING METHODS

Traditional lectures in Italian are integrated with individual/group works.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Analysis of some problems in the tourist sector: assignment, scheduling, transportation problems; human resource management, forecasting, pricing and revenue management.

Methods: decision theory, optimization. Spreadsheet Excel will be used for solving the analysed problems.

 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

books will be listed on aulaweb at the beginning of the course.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

DANIELA AMBROSINO (President)

ANNA FRANCA SCIOMACHEN

ELENA TANFANI

PIERPAOLO UBERTI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

II semester - February 2019

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written examination and presentation of case studies

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Written examination and presentation of case studies

Exam schedule

Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
08/01/2019 11:00 IMPERIA Scritto
22/01/2019 11:00 IMPERIA Scritto
04/02/2019 11:00 IMPERIA Scritto
03/06/2019 11:00 IMPERIA Scritto
20/06/2019 10:00 IMPERIA Scritto
04/07/2019 11:00 IMPERIA Scritto
11/09/2019 11:00 IMPERIA Scritto

FURTHER INFORMATION

http://www.economia.unige.it/index.php/english/incoming-erasmus-students