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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 …
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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 …
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key gaps identified in the tourism impact assessment literature. First, a destination-specific tourism demand and value … regional economy-wide and poverty impacts of a US$36 million investment in tourism in the south of Haiti. The first social … representative household configuration to enable more robust analysis of tourism investment impacts on poverty and income inequality …
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(GHG) emissions could reduce the sustainability of those tourism experiences. In this paper we study the bike tourists … observations from an on-line survey on bike tourism in 2020 in Italy, we develop a bivariate probit model, considering socio …
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(FAVAR) model. We analyze the role of speculation in comparison to supply and demand forces as drivers of oil prices. The … main results are as follows: (i) While global demand shocks account for the largest share of oil price fluctuations …, speculative demand shocks are the second most important driver. (ii) The comovement between oil prices and the price of other …
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livelihood of islands with small populations and territory which are present in each of the world's great oceans. The Small … Island Tourism Economies analysed in this paper vary profoundly in their size, land area, and location. Moreover, they have … their prospects for self reliance in economic development, and their overwhelming reliance on tourism as a source of exports …
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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 …
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