professionellen Dienstleister, die sich bis heute gerne als Gastgeber titulieren. Tourismus als Gastfreundschaft oder ein profanes … Geschäft? Der Nutzen hat aber auch negative Seiten – für Einheimische, die am Tourismus nicht teilhaben und nur vom Verkehr … aufzuzeigen und zu analysieren, um gewissermaßen einen bewussteren und eigenverantwortlichen Tourismus damit anzustoßen, ist die …

This Selected Issues paper for The Bahamas reports that the largest portion of tourism expenditure in The Bahamas comes … from stayover visitors, and total tourism spending has been stagnant. The Bahamas is a small open economy highly dependent … on tourism and the offshore financial sector. Private consumption expenditure in the country or countries of origin is …

This paper investigates the determinants of tourism demand in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. We estimate the … demand function in a panel setting using annual data from 1979 to 2005. Results show that tourism arrivals are significantly … servicing a destination, are also found to be significant determinants of tourism demand. …

home, and consumption of tourism services across monopolistically competitive destinations abroad is presented. The model … tourist destinations. Estimates suggest median tourism arrivals decline by at least three to five percent in response to a one …. Estimates of the elasticity of substitution suggest that tourism demand is highly price sensitive, and that a variety of costs …

The paper estimates the impact of macroeconomic supply- and demand-side determinants of tourism, one of the largest … dataset comprising the full universe of bilateral tourism flows spanning over a decade. The results show that the gravity … model explains tourism flows better than goods trade for equivalent specifications. The elasticity of tourism with respect …