This paper investigates residents' preferences towards cruise tourism investment in their home port. The research uses … logit analysis is run to analyse what factors influence the residents' preferences towards investment in cruise tourism …

, resembling the underlying differences in tourism infrastructure and capacities available within each Region …

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 …

International tourism, on which we focus in this paper, is recognized to contribute to long-run growth through a whole … list of diverse channels. This belief that tourism can promote, if not, plainly, cause long-run growth is known in the … literature as the Tourism-Led Growth Hypothesis (TLGH). Our case study of Brazil can also be taken as a particular test for such …

This study investigates the main determinants of the German demand for tourism in South Tyrol. The important share of … Germans in the South Tyrolean market with more than 80% of the total of international tourism arrivals in the region is the … panel data set collected from 116 tourism destinations of South Tyrol. We use annual data from 1987 to 2007 of the per …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of tourism to economic growth in Colombia. We first use the growth of … real GDP per capita disaggregating it into economic growth generated by tourism and by other industries. This measure gives … information of past performance of tourism in Colombia indicating the fraction of the growth of real GDP that corresponds to …

Argentine is the principal source of tourism in the Uruguayan case. Its effects in the economic growth is analyzed in … cointegrated vector among real per capita GDP, Argentinean tourism expenditure, and real exchange rate between Uruguay and …