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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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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 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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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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continents, such as Ireland) or on intercontinental flights (e.g., Africa) will see a decline in international tourism numbers … would stay closer to home so that EU tourism would grow at the expense of other destinations. Sensitivity analyses reveal … that the qualitative insights are robust. A carbon tax on aviation fuel would have little effect on international tourism …
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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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We use a model of domestic and international tourist numbers and flows to estimate the impact of the recent and proposed changes in the Air Passenger Duty (APD) of the United Kingdom. We find that the recent doubling of the APD has the perverse effect of increasing carbon dioxide emissions,...
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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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Since the Chinese economic reforms, the government’s policy towards travelling and tourism activity has changed. The … conquer the international tourism market by package tours. However, the literature so far neglected the motivation of Chinese … tourism and foreign tourists in China. The identification of the specific preferences of Chinese travellers helps to assess in …
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