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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 …
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We present a new, global data base on tourist destinations. The data base differs from other data bases in that it includes both domestic and international tourists; and it contains data, for the most important destinations, data at national level as well as at lower administrative levels....
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on the economic assessment of two specific climate change impacts: sea-level rise and changes in tourism flows. By using … impact category to the final result. In the case under scrutiny demand shocks induced by changes in tourism flows outweigh …
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Tourism is an industry of primary importance for the world economy. For some countries, tourism is the first source of … income and foreign currency, and many local economies heavily depend on tourism. Tourists are sensitive to climate and to … to leave their country of origin. Yet, until recently, the attention devoted by the tourism literature to climate change …
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This paper studies the impacts on economic growth of a small tourism driven economy caused by an increase in the growth … rate of international tourism demand. We present a formal model and empirical evidence.The ingredients of the dynamic model … are a large population of intertemporally optimizing agents and an AK technology representing tourism production. The …
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Tourism is one of the most important factors in the productivity of the Mexican economy with significant multiplier … effects on economic activity. This paper investigates possible causal relationships between tourism expenditure, real exchange … vector among real GDP, tourism expenditure, and real exchange rate where the corresponding elasticities are positive. The …
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We use an updated and extended version of the Hamburg Tourism Model to simulate the effect of development and climate … change on tourism. Model extensions are the explicit modelling of domestic tourism and the inclusion of tourist expenditures …. We also use the model to examine the impact of sea level rise on tourism demand. Climate change would shift patterns of …
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International tourism is an important foreign exchange earner and an export for many low income countries as well as … tourism as a potential strategic factor to development and economic growth. The tourism-led economic growth hypothesis (TLGH …) postulates that tourism expansion leads to economic growth. It derives directly from the export-led growth hypothesis (ELGH …
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In this paper we investigate the contribution of tourism to economic growth in Colombia. We first use the growth of … real GDP per capita disaggregating it into economic growth generated by tourism and by other industries. This measure gives … information of past performance of tourism in Colombia indicating the fraction of the growth of real GDP that corresponds to …
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Argentine is the principal source of tourism in the Uruguayan case. Its effects in the economic growth is analyzed in … cointegrated vector among real per capita GDP, Argentinean tourism expenditure, and real exchange rate between Uruguay and …
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