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This paper provides a comparative analysis of statistical methods to evaluate the consumer perception about the quality of Services of General Interest. The evaluation of the service quality perceived by users is usually based on Customer Satisfaction Survey data and an ex-post evaluation is...
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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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Island Tourism Economies analysed in this paper vary profoundly in their size, land area, and location. Moreover, they have … their prospects for self reliance in economic development, and their overwhelming reliance on tourism as a source of exports … analyses the geographical, historical, economic, tourism-oriented and institutional characteristics, as well as vulnerability …
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In this paper an alternative Tourism oriented Data Warehousing architecture is proposed which makes use of the most … decision making process and giving an integrated view of the whole Tourism reality in an established context (local, regional …
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Tourism has been regarded as a major source of economic growth and a good source of foreign exchange earnings. Tourism … is the general equilibrium effects of tourism on the other sectors in the economy. These effects can be quite substantial … and should be taken into account when assessing the net benefits of a tourism boom on an economy. This paper presents a …
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SAM has been constructed considering three sectors: agriculture, tourism and a third aggregate sector including all the …
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We present a theoretical model in tourism economics, assuming that the market for tourism is an oligopoly with … capacity that can be interpreted as the stock of physical, natural or cultural resources. Tourism flows yield current revenues … questions, like the choice between mass- vs. elite-tourism development strategies; the effect of the number of competing …
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In this paper we try to build a bridge between the traditional analysis of the evolution of tourism destinations and … economic growth theory. With such an aim we develop an environmental growth model for an economy specialized in tourism and we … derive the pattern of tourism development with numerical calculations. The results of our simulations do not contradict the …
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We present a new, global data base on tourist destinations. The data base differs from other data bases in that it includes both domestic and international tourists; and it contains data, for the most important destinations, data at national level as well as at lower administrative levels....
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During their holidays, tourists produce direct and indirect effects on local residents, which can either be positive or negative. In this paper we investigate how residents of Rimini, a popular Italian seaside resort hosting more than ten million national and foreign overnight stays every year,...
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