This paper investigates residents' preferences towards cruise tourism investment in their home port. The research uses … logit analysis is run to analyse what factors influence the residents' preferences towards investment in cruise tourism …

, resembling the underlying differences in tourism infrastructure and capacities available within each Region …

Cruise tourism generates an estimated $18 billion a year in passenger expenditure and has been the fastest growing … decision making process and the establishment of policies and strategies for cruise ship tourism. We focus on the case of Costa … Rica using data collected by the Costa Rican Tourism Institute during the period 2006 - 2008 …

International tourism, on which we focus in this paper, is recognized to contribute to long-run growth through a whole … list of diverse channels. This belief that tourism can promote, if not, plainly, cause long-run growth is known in the … literature as the Tourism-Led Growth Hypothesis (TLGH). Our case study of Brazil can also be taken as a particular test for such …

Cruise tourism generates an estimated $18 billion a year in passenger expenditure and has been the fastest growing … increased at almost twice the rate of growth of tourism overall and this growth is expected to continue in the future. The North … 2007. Cruise tourism can provide economic benefits to a local economy but the impacts of this activity are not well …

activities related with the tourism and the behavior of a local population. We answer two questions: 1) Suppose that the central … tourist activities? So we analyze the situation when it's possible to obtain a sustainable tourism in a country such that the … tourism is the main economic activity …

This study investigates the main determinants of the German demand for tourism in South Tyrol. The important share of … Germans in the South Tyrolean market with more than 80% of the total of international tourism arrivals in the region is the … panel data set collected from 116 tourism destinations of South Tyrol. We use annual data from 1987 to 2007 of the per …

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 …

In this paper we describe the evolution of the cruise tourism industry and we analyze different impacts on tourism …

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 …