This Ph. D. dissertation discusses the measurement of the macroeconomic impacts of tourism. Chapter 1 establishes the conceptual framework for measuring the macroeconomic impacts of tourism. Chapter 2 critically evaluates the methods currently used to measure the macroeconomic impacts of...

The paper analyses the impacts of tourism on jobs and incomes in Bulgaria. Direct and indirect impacts of four tourism characteristic activities are calculated - hotel and restaurants, passenger road and rail transport, passenger air and water transport, and auxiliary transport services and...

The study examines the Tourism Satellite Account as a tool for measuring the macroeconomic impacts of tourism. In Chapter One the essence, structure, strengths and weaknesses of the Tourism Satellite Account are elaborated. In Chapter Two the macroeconomic impacts of tourism are defined and the...

Promoting a country's destination is one of the major tasks of a National Tourism Organization (NTO). NTOs have many ways in which to promote their countries' tourism products, one of which is participating in tourism and travel fairs. This paper analyses the effectiveness of destination...

A key player in tourism development and promotion is the state. However, previous research has not adequately measured the effectiveness of the state's attempts to promote a country's tourism product. In this research, the authors will use an econometric model to measure the impact of the...

Previous research has not adequately measured the effectiveness of a state's promotion of its tourism product. In this research, the authors use an econometric model to measure the impact of the Croatian, Czech, and Slovak states' attempts to promote their tourism products abroad. The findings...

The paper presents a methodology for measuring the contribution of tourism to an economy's growth, which is tested with data for Cyprus, Greece and Spain. We use the growth of real GDP per capita as a measure of economic growth and disaggregate it into economic growth generated by tourism and...

The paper analyses the possibilities to develop communist heritage tourism in Bulgaria. After a review of related literature, the paper identifies five characteristics of communist heritage tourism: ideologically overburdened type of tourism, controversial, represents a limited time period of...

Is there a link between a state's form of political and economic organization and a state's response to tourism? In this paper, we look at three broad models for political/economic organization that states follow and then explore examples of those states and each country's response to tourism to...

Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how demographic changes in developed countries will continue to drive the tourism and hospitality industries to adopt automation in business operations. Design/methodology/approach. The approach is an analysis of the trends in human reproduction...