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This essay establishes four propositions. First, the diamond industry has been a positive force for development in southern Africa. Second, jewelry, among the most profitable segments of the industry, is a non-essential luxury, and accordingly, consumer concerns over conflict diamonds pose a...
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Analysis of Botswana’s competitiveness in world trade has been presented based on indices of revealed comparative … advantage (RCA) calculated for the period 1999 and 2004. Results show that Botswana has RCA in diamonds, copper matte, and meat …
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This paper examines the trajectory of economic development in Botswana between the years 1820 and 1966, when it … then proceed to analyze what factors have encouraged or hindered economic development in Botswana: In particular, I focus …, demographic trends, as well as on ethnic divisions and cultural belief systems. Finally, I discuss how prepared Botswana was for …
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tourism and long-term economic growth. These studies have employed a variety of methodologies, models such as VAR, VECM, ARDL … Granger causality. This work shows that in the cases reviewed there is strong empirical evidence for the hypothesis of tourism …. Additionally, the study shows that the values of the elasticity of economic growth from tourism are significant different between …
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Tourism is increasingly being promoted as an important source of economic growth especially in developing countries …. While there are many elements that contribute to tourism growth, without an efficient air transport system, it is almost … international tourism. From the perspective of an African nation the most important question is whether the benefit of aviation …
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region should be based on active and multilevel cooperation among operators of the local tourism business environment. It is … rather high level of inertia of local authorities in creating appropriate conditions for tourism business development, thus …
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In Kerala, the revenue generated by tourism i assessed as 6.29% of GDP and the employment in tourism is estimated as 7 … basic infrastructure to support tourism and adopting a policy that i eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable says … Kerala's Tourism's ministrer in 2003. The importance of information technology in increasing in all the sectors. Tourism one …
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In recent decades, hotel companies based in the Balearic Islands have become the leaders of the Spanish tourism market … maintained with international tourism companies: foreign capital tour operators and hotel chains. This analysis includes the …
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tourism in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The results of the homogenous and instantaneous causality tests suggest that … for only a small set of countries. For the most part, the causal relationship runs from FDI to tourism, implying that FDI … provides much needed capacity for SIDS and therefore allows these countries to expand their tourism product. …
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We discuss who should be in charge of providing data relevant to marketing segmentation for the tourism industry. We …
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