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Possibilities of novel technologies application for purposes of tourism of people with special needs
Szark-Eckardt, Mirosława; Augustyńska, Beata; … - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 18 (2018) 2, pp. 879-892
current and potential possibilities of novel technologies application for purposes of tourism of people with special needs … opportunities, including wider application of e-tourism in meeting requirements and needs of disabled people, elderly people or … implications: There is a need for working out novel business models, including the area of e-tourism for people with special needs …
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How has the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Outdoor Recreation in the U.S.? A Revealed Preference Approach
Landry, Craig E.; Bergstrom, John C.; Salazar, John; … - 2020
This study examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on outdoor recreation visits and values using a unique … reported in a nationwide survey of outdoor recreation participants. The demand models incorporate visitors’ COVID-19 related … has had negative effects on both recreation visits and values. We recommend that recreation site managers focus on …
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Pollution and Weather Trade-offs for Endurance Events
Nath, Purnendu - 2021
This paper addresses the trade-off between unfavourable air pollution levels and favourable weather conditions for selecting a date for the staging of an outdoor event. For an event date that has been fixed, it presents a personal preference-based data-driven decision framework for individual...
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Why Are Older Women Missing in India? The Age Profile of Bargaining Power and Poverty
Calvi, Rossella - 2018
Almost half of missing women in India are of post-reproductive ages. I show that intra-household gender inequality and gender asymmetry in poverty can account for a substantial fraction of these missing women. Using a natural experiment, I link women's intra-household bargaining power to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917579
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Retirement and unexpected health shocks
Apouey, Bénédicte H.; Guven, Cahit; Senik-Leygonie, … - 2017
Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey (waves 2001-2014), we construct measures of unexpected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776035
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Harmonizing the Yin and Yang : Gender Disparities in Subjective Well-Being after Retirement in China
Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Chou, Shin-yi; Yu, Han - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the China Family Panel Studies and leveraging the variation...
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Growing Older : Tourism and Leisure Behaviour of Older Adults
Patterson, I - 2006
Drawing on the latest research this book examines the tourism and leisure needs of older people. Chapters review the …Intro -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Tourism and Leisure Needs of Older Adults -- 2 Motivations and Constraints … to Tourism and Leisure for Older Adults -- 3 Socio-demographic Variables Associated with Tourism, Leisure and Ageing -- 4 …
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Warm glow and embedding in contingent valuation
Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Schokkaert, Erik - 2001
This paper reports the results from a contingent valuation study designed to investigate the influence of warm glow in willingness-to-pay responses. Interindividual differences in warm glow motivation are measured through a factor analysis, performed on a list of attitudinal items. The reported...
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Effects of Great Barrier Reef Degradation on Recreational Demand: A Contingent Behaviour Approach
Roebeling, Peter C.; Kragt, M.E.; Ruijs, A. - 2006
Australia. We assessed how reef degradation affects GBR tourism and to what extent reef-trip demand depends on the visitors … diversity, respectively. This corresponds to a decrease in tourism expenditure for reef trips to the Great Barrier Reef Marine …
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Measuring lost recreational benefits in Fukushima due to harmful rumors using a Poisson-inverse Gaussian regression
Nohara, Katsuhito; Narukawa, Masaki - 2015
essentially nothing to do with an event or accident. h (Kojien sixth edition, 2008) This means that tourism in a given area will … quality at a recreation site), tourists will be deterred, and the economy at the site will be negatively affected. However … Prefecture would have skewed the expected trip numbers and overestimated the monetary loss of tourism. This paper estimated the …
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