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The holiday destination choice is analysed for tourists from 45 countries, representing all continents and all climates. Tourists are deterred by distance, political instability and poverty, and attracted to coasts. Tourists prefer countries with a sunny yet mild climate, shun climes that are...
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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. Models extensions are the explicit modelling of domestic tourism, and the inclusion of tourist … expenditures. Climate change would shift patterns of tourism towards higher altitudes and latitudes. Domestic tourism may double in …
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. Climate change can be expected to have an effect on this attractiveness and will subsequently alter patterns of demand. An …
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increase numbers – as tourism demand from increasingly rich tropical countries grows. In Ireland and the UK, the regional … pattern of demand shifts is similar to the international one: Tourism shifts north. In Germany, the opposite pattern is …We downscale the results of a global tourism simulation model at a national resolution to a regional resolution. We use …
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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 one of the largest and fastest growing economic sectors. Tourism is obviously related to climate, as … tourists prefer spending time outdoors and travel to enjoy the sun or landscape. It is therefore surprising that the tourism … literature pays little attention to tourism. The number of studies on tourism and climate change is, however, starting to grow …
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We analyse the destination choice of Chinese tourists in China and abroad. Abroad, Chinese tourists prefer to travel to large and rich countries, and are little deterred by distance. Climate, coast, culture and political stability are irrelevant. Chinese tourists travel disproportionally to...
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We use a model of domestic and international tourist numbers and flows to estimate the impact of the EU-US Open Skies agreement that is to take effect in March 2008. The Open Aviation Area will result in increased competition between transatlantic carriers and consequently falls in the cost of...
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. The growth rate of international tourism is projected to increase over the coming decades, but may slow down later in the … century as demand for travel saturates. Emissions of carbon dioxide would increase fast as well. With climate change … in their home countries. As such tourists currently dominate the international tourism market, climate change would …
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