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. … greater amount of crime than non-tourist ones in the short and long run. Following the literature of the economics of crime à …

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 …. Possible spill-over effects of crime are taken into account by testing two spatial models (one spatial lag model and one …

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 …

The aim of this paper is to gauge the cost of crime in Italy by concentrating on a subset of offences covering about 64 …% of total recorded crime in year 2006. Following the breakdown of costs put forward by Brand and Price, we focus on the … elasticity estimates from recent studies concerning the determinants of crime in Italy and calculate the cost associated with the …

entry costs and for externalities that shift the distribution of entrepreneurial talents. We show that these assumptions … on a sample of Italian firms and unambiguously reject the entry costs explanation in favor of the externalities one. We … also investigate the sources of external effects, finding robust evidence that learning externalities are an important …

The paper analyzes the impact of domestic and international tourism on the economic growth process for 179 European … the regional level for the period 1999-2009 is influenced by tourism flows, in addition to the traditional growth … tourism. …

sustainable tourism policies. Multinomial logit estimations reveal the strong negative effects resulting from the congestion of …

the north, showing the presence of agglomeration externalities. Turning to the evolution of clusters, we see a similar …