receipts of tourism as one of the world biggest and fastest growing industries. The intention of our examination is to present … that tourism may be an important chance for economic growth in developing countries. We assume that biodiversity is an … important factor influencing the demand for tourism. In other words: a rich biodiversity provides a comparative advantage for …

tourism receipts in a trade based endogenous growth framework. The underlying assumption is that a rich biodiversity - only if … used sustainably - provides a comparative advantage in tourism for most DCs. The main empirical findings are that … biodiversity while being significantly and positively correlated with inbound tourism receipts in DCs, has no significant relation …

In this paper we discuss the determinants which contribute to outbound tourism expenditures. The aim is to show whether … capita income and the openness to trade on the tourism expenditures per capita as well as on the tourism expenditure per GDP … openness to tourism as countries which are able to attract high inbound tourism receipts per capita also having high outbound …

We analyze whether biodiversity is increasing the receipts of tourism and beneficial for Least Developed Countries … have a comparative advantage in (sustainable) tourism, that second incidence of birds as the probably best explored … taxonomic group has a positive impact on inbound tourism receipts per capita, and that third the rate of endangered to total …

the world largest tourism destination. To estimate this empirically we run an augmented gravity equation. Our results give … positive effects on the tourism flows between these countries. In particular, after controlling for a set of geographic …