Tourism and air transport - an economic evaluation of the Oporto Airport expansion project

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Autor(a) principal: Costa,Vânia Natércia Gonçalves
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
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Resumo: Over the past few years the rate of air transport use has increased, making it a crucial sector of activity in economic and tourism development. It has become essential to adapt airport infrastructures to the new requirements of demand. This study aims evaluate and quantify, in socio-economic terms, the impact of investment of an airport infrastructure expansion project. This research focused on a case study of the Oporto Airport, the investment in expanding the capacity of the entire airport infrastructure from three to 11 million passengers the expansion project of this airport, which ran from 2000 to 2007 and involved a total investment of €407 million. The methodology used is based on the economic evaluation, concretely applying the cost-benefit analysis method, which compares the social benefits and decision costs. According to the results obtained, the expansion project of Oporto Airport is expected to be a good investment from a socioeconomic viewpoint.
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title Tourism and air transport - an economic evaluation of the Oporto Airport expansion project
spellingShingle Tourism and air transport - an economic evaluation of the Oporto Airport expansion project
Costa,Vânia Natércia Gonçalves
Airport
cost-benefit analysis
economic evaluation
infrastructures
tourism
title_short Tourism and air transport - an economic evaluation of the Oporto Airport expansion project
title_full Tourism and air transport - an economic evaluation of the Oporto Airport expansion project
title_fullStr Tourism and air transport - an economic evaluation of the Oporto Airport expansion project
title_full_unstemmed Tourism and air transport - an economic evaluation of the Oporto Airport expansion project
title_sort Tourism and air transport - an economic evaluation of the Oporto Airport expansion project
author Costa,Vânia Natércia Gonçalves
author_facet Costa,Vânia Natércia Gonçalves
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Costa,Vânia Natércia Gonçalves
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Airport
cost-benefit analysis
economic evaluation
infrastructures
tourism
topic Airport
cost-benefit analysis
economic evaluation
infrastructures
tourism
description Over the past few years the rate of air transport use has increased, making it a crucial sector of activity in economic and tourism development. It has become essential to adapt airport infrastructures to the new requirements of demand. This study aims evaluate and quantify, in socio-economic terms, the impact of investment of an airport infrastructure expansion project. This research focused on a case study of the Oporto Airport, the investment in expanding the capacity of the entire airport infrastructure from three to 11 million passengers the expansion project of this airport, which ran from 2000 to 2007 and involved a total investment of €407 million. The methodology used is based on the economic evaluation, concretely applying the cost-benefit analysis method, which compares the social benefits and decision costs. According to the results obtained, the expansion project of Oporto Airport is expected to be a good investment from a socioeconomic viewpoint.
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