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major steps: firstly, interviews to tourists in each case study city, in order to estimate the scale and variability of the … spending patterns of different profiles of visitors (e.g., culture-driven vs. leisure tourists); secondly, application of the … the effects of tourist expenditure on sales, income and employment for the several impacted economic sectors. Tourists …
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temperature and minimum winter temperature. Separate analyses are conducted for domestic and international tourists, so as to test … the international tourists. …
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and international tourists. The romantic and naturalistic dimension expressed by Papaleo's film seems to have stimulated … the curiosity of tourists and promoted a "dreamy" but truthful image of the region. …
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Exploring the main determinants of tourism participation at national and international level, the paper investigates if there are differences in tourism consumption behavior among Italian families which reflect disparities in their standard of living. To achieve this a Heckman model has been...
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The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project (http://www.marine-vectors.eu/). The main scope of the project (2011-2015) has been to evaluate, from a multilateral perspective, drivers, pressures and vectors of changes in marine life of three main European seas...
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Is tourism an opportunity for lagging countries in the elusive quest for growth (Easterly, 2002)? Recent empirical evidence suggests that the answer is a cautious yes. Aggregate cross-country data show that tourism specialization is likely to be associated with higher per capita GDP growth rates...
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This paper analyses the foundations, possible applications and the effects of tourism taxation in Spain. The article begins with an analysis of the economic and environmental reasons for taxing tourism, which would seem to call for taxes based on the principle of benefit, for either revenue or...
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on the environmental quality of the destination but also on lodging infrastructures and related services that tourists …
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We use an updated and extended version of the Hamburg Tourism Model to simulate the effect of development and climate change on tourism. Model extensions are the explicit modelling of domestic tourism and the inclusion of tourist expenditures. We also use the model to examine the impact of sea...
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Congestion is an important management problem at mass tourist sites. This essay focuses on the social carrying capacity (SCC) of a tourist site as indicator of residents’ and visitors’ perception of crowding, intended as the maximum number of visitors (MNV) tolerated. In case of conflict...
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