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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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Tourism has a more and more important role in the economic development of many countries. Mountain tourism is an anti … role, medical spa treatments practicing hiking, alpinism. Mountain tourism generates increased economic benefits for the …, being able to be a remedy for unindustrialised regions. Mountain tourism contributes to the economic development of the …
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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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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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Evaluation and monitoring of tourism impacts is crucial for sustainable development. The article deals with the … perception of tourism on its surrounding. It evaluates the impacts of tourism in the South of Bohemia (NUTS III region). The … the life cycle of destination is derived. To evaluate the impacts of tourism on its surrounding the primary research was …
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The substantiation of the concept of sustainable development has appeared as a necessity determined by economic growth in all indicators. Theoretical economic concepts and also issues related to the relationship between man and environment, economic development and resources, environmental and...
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This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
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