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 …

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 study analyses the potential impact of climate change on EU tourism demand and provides long-term (2100) scenarios … accounting for adaptation in terms of holiday duration. Our long-term projections for tourism demand are based on hedonic … hypotheses regarding the time dimension of tourism demand. We derive alternative scenarios for adaptation of holiday in terms of …

affecting the fishing and the tourism sectors in two different IPCC SRES scenarios, the A2 and B1, varying in the future trends … through increases in fishing effort, due to lower availability of commercial fish species, and decrease in tourism demand … larger when the tourism sector is affected. This is explained by the much higher contribution of tourism than fishery in the …

(GHG) emissions could reduce the sustainability of those tourism experiences. In this paper we study the bike tourists … observations from an on-line survey on bike tourism in 2020 in Italy, we develop a bivariate probit model, considering socio …

Tourism and environmental preservation are often conflicting activities, mainly in areas such as coastal lagoons, where … seaside mass-tourism comes into contact with a very sensitive ecological system. In this paper we deal with a classical … problem of both environmental and tourism economics, the internalization of environmental costs of tourism, focusing on the …

This paper studies the economic implications of climate-change-induced variations in tourism demand, using a world CGE … subsequently perturbed by shocks, simulating the effects of climate change. We portray the impact of climate change on tourism by …

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good … option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 tourism countries within a sample of … that the tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub-groups considered in our analysis (OECD, Oil …