Editorial Introduction -- Part I: Socio-Economic Impacts of Tourism -- Part II: Innovation and Competitiveness in … determinants of tourism competitiveness at the destination level. The authors offer a systematic overview of this important issue … of tourism development, in particular those related to the role of innovation and human resources. The final section …

the marketing of settlements regarding their performance in terms of creativity, innovativeness and competitiveness. The …

the marketing of settlements regarding their performance in terms of creativity, innovativeness and competitiveness. The …

Recently the notion and the measurement of destination competitiveness have received increasing attention in the … subject of this paper - inspired by the conceptual competitiveness model developed earlier by Crouch and Ritchie - concerns … tourist site competitiveness in terms of its technical efficiency using parametric and non-parametric methods, a stochastic …

data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regio nal …

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …

detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks, accessibility …