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the 6th FP project PICTURE (Pro-active management of the Impact of Cultural Tourism upon Urban Resources and Economies …), in order to quantify the monetary impact of cultural tourism upon urban economies. The analysis was carried out in two … understanding how different sectors of local economy and society can benefit from tourism and in determining how to maximise, or …
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regional economy-wide and poverty impacts of a US$36 million investment in tourism in the south of Haiti. The first social … key gaps identified in the tourism impact assessment literature. First, a destination-specific tourism demand and value … representative household configuration to enable more robust analysis of tourism investment impacts on poverty and income inequality …
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This paper investigates the impact of tourism policy on employment, using the Tourism Development Policy (TDP … evaluated policy -one specific sector in one province- we also construct a synthetic control for the tourism sector using a … tourism employment in Salta by an average of 11 percent per year, for an overall impact of around 112 percent between 2003 and …
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Regular and irregular travel patterns coincide with different underlying purposes of travel and days of the week. Within this paper, it is shown that the balance between subsistence (i.e. work) and discretionary (i.e. leisure) activities is related to differences in travel patterns and explains...
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affecting the fishing and the tourism sectors in two different IPCC SRES scenarios, the A2 and B1, varying in the future trends … through increases in fishing effort, due to lower availability of commercial fish species, and decrease in tourism demand … larger when the tourism sector is affected. This is explained by the much higher contribution of tourism than fishery in the …
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Tourism and environmental preservation are often conflicting activities, mainly in areas such as coastal lagoons, where … seaside mass-tourism comes into contact with a very sensitive ecological system. In this paper we deal with a classical … problem of both environmental and tourism economics, the internalization of environmental costs of tourism, focusing on the …
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The opportunity Value of Travel Time (VTT) is one of the most important parts of the total cost of recreation day-trips and arguably the most difficult to estimate. Most studies build upon the theoretical framework proposed by Becker's (1965) by using a combination of revealed and stated...
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