microeconomic perspective of cultural tourism is provided, where the interest is to analyse the attitude of visitors regarding …. These findings provide an essential tool to manage heritage resources and plan the future tourism development around the …

As tourism is becoming one of the most important sources of economic growth at the local level, it is imperative to … identify and assess the relevant determinants of tourism flows. This paper investigates this issue by carrying out an … dependence generally featured by tourism flows. We contribute to the current debate by analyzing the tourism flows for the …

positive relationship between tourism and crime in destinations. When using the level rather than the rate of total crime and … tourist population. Therefore, the main explanation for the impact of tourism on crime seems to be agglomeration effects. …

investigate a new channel of efficiency - enhancing information spillovers - tourism flows. The idea is that tourists, in general … tourism destinations, thus transmitting relevant information to the local firms. The latter, in turn, exploit this new … impact of tourism flows on regional efficiency levels together with the positive role played by intangible assets …

The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive literature review on the temporal relationship between tourism and … investigated by assessing the so-called Tourism Led Growth Hypothesis (TLGH). To this aim, various methodological approaches have … from the existing literature, provide evidence that indeed tourism activity drives economic development in all the …

This paper analyses the linkage between tourism and crime with particular focus on the distortions generated onto ….e. urban, mountain, marine etc- alters the impact of tourism on crime. Finally, we measure the social cost of crime associated …