This paper analyses how German tourists react to unanticipated shocks that alter their risk perception of selected tourism destinations. Using a difference-in-difference strategy which flexibly accounts for macroeconomic conditions and also addresses potential problems of serial correlation, we...

We downscale the results of a global tourism simulation model at a national resolution to a regional resolution. We use this to investigate the impact of climate change on the regions of Germany, Ireland and the UK. Because of climate change, tourists from all three countries would spend more...

This paper examines the transferability of gravity models derived from natural sciences and established to explain international trade in terms of international tourism. The focus of the study is the trade volume generated by inbound tourism to Germany. To implement a panel data analysis the...

This paper empirically analyzes the determinants of individual tourism-related adaptation to climate change, i.e. the stated choice of alternative travel destinations due to increasing temperatures in the future. By examining the tourism sector, our study investigates an industry which was not...

Schlagworte deutsch: Klimawandel, Konfliktpotenzial, Tourismus, Ressourcenkonflikt, Beteiligung, Kulturkonflikt. Schlagworte englisch: Climate chnage, conflict potential, tourism, resource conflict, participation, cultural conflict

In 2003 the Institute of Economic Structures Research (GWS mbH) has developed a tourism satellite account (TSA) for the Federal Republic of Germany relating to the year 2000.1 During the process of empirical compilation the Federal Statistical Office (as an external partner outside the GWS) has...