Hotels, second homes and destination planning policies: a sequential game model

A Game Theoretic Approach for Greening, Pricing, And Advertising Policies in A Green Supply Chain

In this paper, greening, pricing, and advertising policies in a supply chain will be examined with government intervention. The supply chain has two members. First, a manufacturer seeking to determine the wholesale price and the greening level and second, a retailer that has to determine the advertising cost and the retail price. The government is trying to encourage the manufacturer to green t...

Cooperative aggregate production planning: a game theory approach

Production costs in general, and workforce and inventory costs in particular, constitute a large fraction of the operating costs of many manufacturing plants. We introduce cooperative aggregate production planning as a way to decrease these costs. That is, when production planning of two or more facilities (plants) is integrated, they can interchange workforce and products inventory; thus, thei...

Tourism Education and Training Models Getting to the Core of Destination Planning and Managemet

New professions for planning and managing a tourist destination

1 From this perspective, human resources represent a restraint and, at the same time, an opportunity for the competitiveness of an economic system, both in the case of a single company and of the whole territory in its complexity: A restraint as the development of an economic system and its sustainability depend on the characteristics of the people operating professionally within it; An opportu...

Iran’s Shift in Family Planning Policies: Concerns and Challenges

Iran’s significant success in implementing Family Planning (FP) during the past 25 years, has made it a role model in the world. The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Iran has dropped from 6.5 in 1960 to 1.6 in 2012, which is well below the targeted value of 2.2 for the country. Iran’s success story, however, did not merely root in the implementation of FP programs. In other words, families’ strong...