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Holiday destinations: Understanding the travel choices of Irish tourists
Lyons, Seán; Mayor, Karen; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2007
characteristics on the tourism destination choices of Irish households. The analysis is based on quarterly survey data of Irish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290543
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The Impact of Climate on Holiday Destination Choice
Tol, Richard S.J.; Bigano, Andrea; Hamilton, Jacqueline M. - 2005
The holiday destination choice is analysed for tourists from 45 countries, representing all continents and all climates. Tourists are deterred by distance, political instability and poverty, and attracted to coasts. Tourists prefer countries with a sunny yet mild climate, shun climes that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312467
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The Impact of Climate Change on Domestic and International Tourism: A Simulation Study
Bigano, Andrea; Hamilton, Jacqueline M.; Tol, Richard S.J. - 2006
We use an updated and extended version of the Hamburg Tourism Model to simulate the effect of development and climate … change on tourism. Model extensions are the explicit modelling of domestic tourism and the inclusion of tourist expenditures …. We also use the model to examine the impact of sea level rise on tourism demand. Climate change would shift patterns of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312545
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A Global Database of Domestic and International Tourist Numbers at National and Subnational Level
Tol, Richard S.J.; Bigano, Andrea; Hamilton, Jacqueline M. - 2005
We present a new, global data base on tourist destinations. The data base differs from other data bases in that it includes both domestic and international tourists; and it contains data, for the most important destinations, data at national level as well as at lower administrative levels....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312296
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Cultural effects on inbound tourism into the USA: a gravity approach
Vietze, Christoph - 2008
world largest tourism destination. To estimate this empirically we run an augmented gravity equation. Our results give … positive effects on the tourism flows between these countries. In particular, after controlling for a set of geographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263883
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Consumer specialization and the Romantic transformation of the British Grand Tour of Europe
Chai, Andreas - 2010
This paper posits that significant changes in 19th century British recreational travel patterns resulted from a change in the manner in which tourists used entertaining stimuli in order to attain pleasure. Consumers no longer merely viewed arousing stimuli, but attempted to use them to produce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281847
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The Impact of a Carbon Tax on International Tourism
Tol, Richard S.J. - 2007
continents, such as Ireland) or on intercontinental flights (e.g., Africa) will see a decline in international tourism numbers … would stay closer to home so that EU tourism would grow at the expense of other destinations. Sensitivity analyses reveal … that the qualitative insights are robust. A carbon tax on aviation fuel would have little effect on international tourism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312587
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The impact of the UK aviation tax on carbon dioxide emissions and visitor numbers
Mayor, Karen; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2007
We use a model of domestic and international tourist numbers and flows to estimate the impact of the recent and proposed changes in the Air Passenger Duty (APD) of the United Kingdom. We find that the recent doubling of the APD has the perverse effect of increasing carbon dioxide emissions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290581
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The impact of the EU-US open skies agreement on international travel and carbon dioxide emissions
Mayor, Karen; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2007
We use a model of domestic and international tourist numbers and flows to estimate the impact of the EU-US Open Skies agreement that is to take effect in March 2008. The Open Aviation Area will result in increased competition between transatlantic carriers and consequently falls in the cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290599
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Airline emissions of carbon dioxide in the European trading system
FitzGerald, John; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2007
A simulation model of international tourist flows is used to estimate the impact of including carbon dioxide emissions from aviation fuels in the European Trading System. The effect on global carbon dioxide emissions from international aviation is minimal: -0.01% at current permit prices, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290601