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This paper studies the impacts on economic growth of a small tourism driven economy caused by an increase in the growth … rate of international tourism demand. We present a formal model and empirical evidence.The ingredients of the dynamic model … are a large population of intertemporally optimizing agents and an AK technology representing tourism production. The …
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We introduce a model of tourism choice where we consider that the choice of a tourism resort by a tourist, depends not …
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, resembling the underlying differences in tourism infrastructure and capacities available within each Region …
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This study investigates aspects of host perception to be used for the formulation of possible strategic tourism …’s perception towards tourism impacts. The results of this study reflect the overall opinions of the sample population, and further … identifies relatively homogeneous opinion groups. Positive and negative perceptions about tourism in the region generate a …
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Cruise tourism generates an estimated $18 billion a year in passenger expenditure and has been the fastest growing … decision making process and the establishment of policies and strategies for cruise ship tourism. We focus on the case of Costa … Rica using data collected by the Costa Rican Tourism Institute during the period 2006 - 2008 …
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This paper explores a recent method for measuring the tourism contribution to an economy's performance and compares it … component that can be imputed to tourism and growth generated by other industries. It is applied to two groups of countries, one … emerging tourism destinations. The comparison between those groups shows that the tourism contribution to GDP is higher for the …
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In a recent work, Ivanov and Webster (2007) present a methodology for measuring the contribution of tourism to economic … as a measure of economic growth and disaggregates it into economic growth generated by tourism and economic growth … American countries). Whilst Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay present a profile where tourism industry has a smaller weight on GDP …
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The growth of the tourism sector in the last years, and in particular of the accommodation industry, has increased the … importance of investment on the quality of tourism services. In this respect, the environmental quality of destination, has … become a tool that hotels have to hold the tourism demand. In this paper we are going to present a model of vertical …
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This research analyses the influence of perceived authenticity of Christmas Markets and their products on shopping expenditure. The quantitative analysis was conducted based on 1275 self-administered questionnaires collected among event attendees in three different Northern Italian Christmas...
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