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We present a new, global data base on tourist destinations. The data base differs from other data bases in that it includes both domestic and international tourists; and it contains data, for the most important destinations, data at national level as well as at lower administrative levels....
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During their holidays, tourists produce direct and indirect effects on local residents, which can either be positive or negative. In this paper we investigate how residents of Rimini, a popular Italian seaside resort hosting more than ten million national and foreign overnight stays every year,...
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Tourism plays a major part in the development strategies of both developing and developed countries because of the … tourism sector in a hope of reaping more economic benefits. However, it is still debatable whether tourism is beneficial for … al., 1998; Blake, 2000; Blake et. al., 2003; Dwyer et al., 2003), argue that tourism expansion is beneficial to the …
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In this paper an alternative Tourism oriented Data Warehousing architecture is proposed which makes use of the most … decision making process and giving an integrated view of the whole Tourism reality in an established context (local, regional …
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As tourism is becoming one of the most important sectors of the world economy, the number of small islands trying to …
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This paper examines the effects of tourism in a dynamic model of trade on unemployment, capital accumulation and … resident welfare. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital accumulation. The …, the expansion of tourism improves welfare. However, when the traded sector is strongly capital intensive, the fall in …
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This paper analyses the foundations, possible applications and the effects of tourism taxation in Spain. The article … begins with an analysis of the economic and environmental reasons for taxing tourism, which would seem to call for taxes … tourism taxation in Spain, with special mention being given to the now repealed Balearic ecotasa. Finally, the effects of two …
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In this paper we try to build a bridge between the traditional analysis of the evolution of tourism destinations and … economic growth theory. With such an aim we develop an environmental growth model for an economy specialized in tourism and we … derive the pattern of tourism development with numerical calculations. The results of our simulations do not contradict the …
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On average, tourism-specialized countries grow more than others. This fact is inconsistent with economic theory as, in … problem. In general and contrary to previous works, we conclude that tourism, on its own, cannot explain the higher growth …
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SAM has been constructed considering three sectors: agriculture, tourism and a third aggregate sector including all the …
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