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Le tourisme durable une organisation du tourisme en milieu rural
François, Hugues - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine février (2004) 1, pp. 57-80
2002 is a key year for sustainable tourism because of its international recognition at Johannesburg Summit. This one is … due to tourism actors? mobilisation. However, multiple initiatory make sustainable tourism difficult to understand, mainly … about production offered. When one analyse both nationals and internationals declarations about sustainable tourism helped …
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Enjeux sociaux et environnementaux du développement du tourisme urbain
Dubois, Ghislain; Ceron, Jean-Paul - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine décembre (2001) 5, pp. 831-860
This article starts by recalling the trends in urban tourism within the last two decades in France, thereby insisting … on the shortcomings of definitions and the difficulties in measuring. It shows how policies fostering tourism lead to a … competitive struggle between cities. However towns experience various forms of tourism, which is expressed in a typology. It …
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Infrastructure Investments and Mega-Sports Events: Comparing the Experience of Developing and Industrialized Countries
Baumann, Robert; Matheson, Victor - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 2013
Countries vigorously compete for sports mega-events in hopes of generating an economic impact during the event but also long-term growth induced by the hallmark event. It is well understood that the economic legacy depends on the infrastructure that not only facilitates the games but also has...
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Employment Effects of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah
Baumann, Robert; Engelhardt, Bryan; Matheson, Victor A. - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 232 (2012) 3, pp. 308-317
Local, state, and federal governments, along with the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee, spent roughly $1.9 billion in planning and hosting the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Event promoters suggested that the Games would increase employment in the state by 35,000 job-years. We investigate whether...
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Assessing the infrastructure impact of mega-events in emerging economies
Matheson, Victor - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 2012
Developing countries that host mega-events such as the Olympic Games and World Cup invest enormous sums in stadiums and collateral infrastructure projects. The rapid investment in long-lasting physical stocks raises questions of equity and efficiency for national taxpayers and event attendees....
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The Effect of Sports Franchises on Property Values: The Role of Owners versus Renters
Matheson, Victor; Kiel, Katherine A.; Sullivan, Christopher - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2010
This paper estimates the public benefits to homeowners in cities with NFL franchises by examining housing prices rather than housing rents. In contrast to Carlino and Coulson (2004) we find that the presence of an NFL franchise has no effect on housing prices in a city. Furthermore, we also test...
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Technical Guidelines for Evaluating the Impacts of Tourism Using Simulation Models
Taylor, J. Edward - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
The purpose of this guideline is to make praticioners aware of simulation approaches for the evaluation of tourism … feasible. For example, it usually is not possible to roll out a tourism-promotion program for a randomly chosen “treatment … simulation approach is useful for tourism impact analysis, what a simulation model for the economic analysis of tourism impacts …
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Tourism policy in Morocco: a great effort for economic development?
Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
widespread employment effects. A tourism policy that opens up perspectives for employment to people in many parts of a country … can contribute to such a solution. This is even more the case because of tourism's high labour intensity and the physical … as to what degree tourism policy can live up to these high expectations. …
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Tourism in the Portuguese Rural Areas
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2013
The tourism in the rural areas is an important contribution to the local economies and an additional income for the … some locations are not sufficient to provide an acceptable return to their promoters. So the different forms of tourism in … areas. This study pretends to analyze some information and statistical data about the several forms of tourism in the …
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Does Unesco inscription affect the performance of tourism destinations? A regional perspective
Cuccia, Tiziana Maria; Guccio, Calogero; Rizzo, Ilde - Association for Cultural Economics International - ACEI - 2013
This paper analyses the role of tourism in the enhancement of local development focusing on the role of UNESCO World … Heritage List (WHL) as attractor of tourism demand. It aims at evaluating the performance of the Italian regions as tourism … efficiency of tourism destinations in the short and in the long term. The empirical results show that, controlling for several …
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