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Targets for CO2 reduction tend to be set in terms of the amount of pollution generated within the borders of a given region or nation. That is, under a "production accounting principle". However, in recent years there has been increased public and policy interest in the notion of a carbon...
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The concept of trade openness is broadly applied as a potential predictor in numerous empirical studies, despite the fact that no commonly accepted approach of measuring openness has been developed. The most widely applied (‘traditional’) openness indices are not able to accurately calculate...
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Tourism is characterized as a sector of economy with high multiplier effect; tourism significantly influences other … sectors of national economy. Through the multiplier the indirect effect of tourism might be measured. The value of tourist … multiplier is a strongly discussed topic, especially in the Czech Republic. The indirect effects of tourism are commonly measured …
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rasantes Wachstum erfahren und dazu geführt, dass im Bereich des internetbasierten Tourismus eine besonders ausgeprägte … Virtual Reality (VR) im Tourismus die Ausnahme und wird damit nicht gezielt genutzt, um Informationen dreidimensional und … transformieren und die nachfragerseitige Bedeutung der Vertrauenseigenschaften mindern kann. Somit kann in der im Tourismus …
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pattern of tourism demand. Despite the cultural and economic importance of tourism and its overwhelming dependence on climatic … factors, relatively few studies have tackled the impact of climate change on tourism. In particular there are few quantitative … studies on the effect that climate change will have on tourism. The aim of this thesis is to fill the research gap and so …
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The purpose of this paper is to describe Fundacion Maquipucuna's community-based entrepreneurship activities. Fundacion Maquipucuna is a unique non-profit organisation in the Choco-Andes region of Ecuador. An ethnographic study and review of the literature is conducted to analyse the cacao,...
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For a healthy development of tourism and all activities in the frame of this industry in the region it is necessary to …. The negative aspects of mass tourism e.g. transport pollution and seasonal price increase, must be balanced by positive … sides of tourism. For this task it is necessary to find a complex solution of this situation - destination management. …
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In the current conditions of development and sustainable growth, due to its specificity, tourism represents a regional … event tourism, which has recently become a very efficient and profitable niche in Romania. The present research aims to … analyse the socio-economic impact of event tourism on regional economic development, first introducing its main methodological …
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This report provides estimates of the lignite industry's contribution to the North Dakota economy, using key economic indicators such as retail trade activity, personal income, total business activity, employment, and tax revenues. The estimates are based on actual industry expenditures for 1999...
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This paper considers a tourism supply chain (TSC) for package holidays. Three sectors are included: a theme park, hotel … complementary sector in the same layer and that the upstream enterprises in the tourism supply chain prefer package holiday product …
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