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Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000
Dupont, Brandon - 2009
There were substantial fluctuations in the numbers of American overseas travelers, especially before World War II. These fluctuations in travel around the robust, long term upward trend are the focus of this paper. We first identify those fluctuations in the raw data and then try to explain the...
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International tourism demand for India
Chattopadhyay, Kunal - In: Artha vijñāna : journal of the Gokhale Institute of … 37 (1995) 2, pp. 184-192
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TOURISM - AS A DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Afrodita, Borma - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2012) 2, pp. 332-336
society\" I chose to present this subject in order to demonstrate the connection that exists between tourism and development …. Having as research topic \"Tourism and development in the Euro regional context†I dedicated a subchapter of this thesis … in presenting tourism as a development strategy. Thus we have analysed a series of specialised papers encountered at …
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Simulating tourists' behaviour using multi-agent modelling
Corniglion, Sébastien; Turnois, Nadine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We discuss who should be in charge of providing data relevant to marketing segmentation for the tourism industry. We … them to a novel approach in marketing segmentation, based on outgoings analysis. We use agent-modelling techniques, based …
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Public marketing in supporting the tourist destinations
Grigorescu, Adriana; Balalia, Alina Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
National policies and public marketing of destinations should cover measures on broadening the supply of travel agencies, on intensifying promotion actions for the offered touristic product. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to choose modern means of promotion so that tourists remain...
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Unintended Consequences from Nested State & Federal Regulations : The Case of the Pavley Greenhouse-Gas-per-Mile Limits
Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2009
Fourteen U.S. states recently pledged to adopt limits on greenhouse gases (GHGs) per mile of light-duty automobiles. Previous analyses predicted this action would significantly reduce emissions from new cars in these states, but ignored possible offsetting emissions increases from policy-induced...
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The American Invasion of Europe : The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000
Dupont, Brandon - 2008
Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also …'s establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by … as mass tourism. We document this rise by compiling a long term series on overseas travel, and describe the changes in …
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Why Do Europeans Smoke More than Americans?
Cutler, David M. - 2006
While Americans are less healthy than Europeans along some dimensions (like obesity), Americans are significantly less likely to smoke than their European counterparts. This difference emerged in the 1970s and it is biggest among the most educated. The puzzle becomes larger once we account for...
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Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe : Why So Different?
Alesina, Alberto - 2005
Americans average 25.1 working hours per person in working age per week, but the Germans average 18.6 hours. The average American works 46.2 weeks per year, while the French average 40 weeks per year. Why do western Europeans work so much less than Americans? Recent work argues that these...
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Tourism and Economic Development : Evidence from Mexico's Coastline
Faber, Benjamin - 2016
Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …
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