Economic competition, sustainability, and survival endurance: the extinction of the dodo, the Easter Island case, and the tragedy of the commons effect

• Pedro Moreira ^[1]
  1. [1] Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau SAR, PR China
• Localización: Higher learning research communications: HLRC, ISSN-e 2157-6254, Vol. 2, Nº. 4 (Higher Learning Research Communications focuses on policy and practice in higher education. We have ), 2012, págs. 23-36
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.18870/hlrc.v2i4.84
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  • A fast developing industry worldwide, tourism demands a monumental extent of resources, and at times devastates and condemns the very own environments that are fundamental to the economic survival of organizations and the sustainability of travel destinations. The purpose of the study is to link three established scientific themes on survival and sustainability to empirical results in the field of economic decision and behavior. The discussion of this link may also represent the originality value of the paper. Departing from the results of a series of decision games obtained under a quasi-experimental design, behavioral patterns were analyzed and extrapolated to explore the terminal effects of competition trends on the survival and economic viability of organizations and travel destinations in restricted environments. The findings show that the identified competition tendency neutralized an important share of the economic potential offered by the decision game, with significant negative effects on the economic efficiency. If persistent, the competition tendency is expected to produce long term effects on the sustainability and economic survival of organizations and travel destinations in restricted environments.

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