of the 6th FP project PICTURE (Pro-active management of the Impact of Cultural Tourism upon Urban Resources and Economies …), in order to quantify the monetary impact of cultural tourism upon urban economies. The analysis was carried out in two … understanding how different sectors of local economy and society can benefit from tourism and in determining how to maximise, or …

Tourism plays a major part in the development strategies of both developing and developed countries because of the … tourism sector in a hope of reaping more economic benefits. However, it is still debatable whether tourism is beneficial for … al., 1998; Blake, 2000; Blake et. al., 2003; Dwyer et al., 2003), argue that tourism expansion is beneficial to the …

We analyze the empirical relationship between growth, country size and tourism specialization by using a dataset … covering the period 1980-2003. We find that tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub …-groups considered in our analysis. Tourism appears to be an independent determining factor for growth, and the reason for that is …

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 …

On average, tourism-specialized countries grow more than others. This fact is inconsistent with economic theory as, in … problem. In general and contrary to previous works, we conclude that tourism, on its own, cannot explain the higher growth …

Nowadays many developing countries focus on economic policies for promoting international tourism and exports expansion … and economic growth is still ongoing. When treating the relationship between tourism and economic growth, considering … tourism as a non-traditional export few studies have been published to date. This paper has the objective to assess if exports …

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 …

Tourism is increasingly seen as a potential lever towards high economic growth, measured both in terms of income and … employment. In recent years, interest in tourism has spread rapidly throughout many small and medium European cities, which … the economic assessment of tourism with the objectives of, firstly, identifying the main categories of impacts and …

We consider the relationship between tourism and economic growth for Latin American countries since 1985 until 1998 … variables. We show that the tourism sector is adequate for the economic growth of medium or low-income countries, though not … growth, we try to explain tourism arrivals conditional on GDP and other covariates such as safety, prices and education level …

This paper examines the effects of tourism in a dynamic model of trade on unemployment, capital accumulation and … resident welfare. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital accumulation. The …, the expansion of tourism improves welfare. However, when the traded sector is strongly capital intensive, the fall in …