tourism industry as part of their regional development policies. The main objective of these programs is to increase local … investment and employment, as tourism activities are labor intensive. Little evidence is available, however, to assess the effect … introduced in 2002 to develop the tourism industry in the undeveloped region of Northeast Brazil. It provides evidence that …

Environmental resources constitute the 'raw materials' for tourism. This sector represents the driving force behind the …. This work systematically examines the effects and the feedbacks that the economy of tourism may generate in small areas …

Is tourism an opportunity for lagging countries in the elusive quest for growth (Easterly, 2002)? Recent empirical … evidence suggests that the answer is a cautious yes. Aggregate cross-country data show that tourism specialization is likely to … fundamental determinants of economic growth (Acemoglu et al., 2001) and ask whether previous positive results of tourism on growth …

latter can be used to assess the influence of the biodiversity profile of a region on the tourism flows towards it. Previous … studies have considered environmental amenities as one of the determinants of tourism destination choice. The central … appear to have a positive impact on the revenue of regional tourism. -- Species Diversity ; Habitat Fragmentation ; Landscape …

regional economy-wide and poverty impacts of a US$36 million investment in tourism in the south of Haiti. The first social … key gaps identified in the tourism impact assessment literature. First, a destination-specific tourism demand and value … representative household configuration to enable more robust analysis of tourism investment impacts on poverty and income inequality …

This paper investigates the impact of tourism policy on employment, using the Tourism Development Policy (TDP … evaluated policy -one specific sector in one province- we also construct a synthetic control for the tourism sector using a … tourism employment in Salta by an average of 11 percent per year, for an overall impact of around 112 percent between 2003 and …