This study analyses the potential impact of climate change on EU tourism demand and provides long-term (2100) scenarios … accounting for adaptation in terms of holiday duration. Our long-term projections for tourism demand are based on hedonic … hypotheses regarding the time dimension of tourism demand. We derive alternative scenarios for adaptation of holiday in terms of …

Exploring the main determinants of tourism participation at national and international level, the paper investigates if … there are differences in tourism consumption behavior among Italian families which reflect disparities in their standard of …-2007. Results show that participation in the tourism market is strongly affected by the personal characteristics of individuals and …

tourism industry as part of their regional development policies. The main objective of these programs is to increase local … investment and employment, as tourism activities are labor intensive. Little evidence is available, however, to assess the effect … introduced in 2002 to develop the tourism industry in the undeveloped region of Northeast Brazil. It provides evidence that …

Is tourism an opportunity for lagging countries in the elusive quest for growth (Easterly, 2002)? Recent empirical … evidence suggests that the answer is a cautious yes. Aggregate cross-country data show that tourism specialization is likely to … fundamental determinants of economic growth (Acemoglu et al., 2001) and ask whether previous positive results of tourism on growth …