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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 …
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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 …
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affecting the fishing and the tourism sectors in two different IPCC SRES scenarios, the A2 and B1, varying in the future trends … through increases in fishing effort, due to lower availability of commercial fish species, and decrease in tourism demand … larger when the tourism sector is affected. This is explained by the much higher contribution of tourism than fishery in the …
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focusing on tourism demand. Our hedonic price estimations combine detailed hotel price information with tourism-specific travel …
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.g. tourism) and the alpine regions will suffer significant economic damages. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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, even for tourism purposes, natural, historical and cultural resources subject to restrictions in the territory. This … contribution describes the research process activated for the definition of a tourism development strategy in the youngest Italian … been developed from a tourism point of view and it has an "eclectic" naturalist value characterised by flora on one hand …
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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 …
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