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Many pleasure trips are often characterized by the visit of more than a single destination. Despite the topic is well documented in literature, the empirical studies are limited to a few pioneering studies. This lack may be attributable to the failure of tourism organizations to collect data on...
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Games on air quality improvement in Beijing, compared to improvements in other areas in China. The results indicate that … compared to other regions, air quality in Beijing improved for a short period of time. These improvements were largely due to …
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The paper presents an economic model of interaction between cricket boards, players and international club-line games sponsors like ICL or IPL. It attempts to capture the inherent conflict between such games and country-line games traditionally organized by cricket boards. It identifies the...
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Competition, Quality and Income Disparities, 1979) and Shaked and Sutton (Relaxing Price Competition through Product …
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The authors solve a linear problem where a potential conflict between two agents (Destination manager and Firm) arises in a tourism destination. Destination manager has to choose how to allocate limited resources (capital and land) between either second homes or hotels. This conflict stems from...
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This paper investigates residents' preferences towards cruise tourism investment in their home port. The research uses data collected during the peak cruise season in 2011 at Messina, a port of call in Sicily, Italy. A generalized ordered logit analysis is run to analyse what factors influence...
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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that, all else being equal, for the case of Italy, tourist areas tend to have a greater amount of crime than non-tourist areas in the long run. Following the literature of the economics of crime à la Becker (1968) and Ehrlich (1973) and using a system...
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terms of a public good quality are done by a central planner. More specifically, they ask the question whether a local …, through a comparison of social welfare given the strategies chosen by the locals governments, that whatever the quality of the …
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If a product has two dimensions of quality, one observable and one not, a firm can use observable quality as a signal … of unobservable quality. The correlation between consumers' valuation of high quality in each dimension is a key … determinant of the feasibility of such signaling. A firm may use price alone as a signal, or price and quality together. Both …
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