This paper studies the preferences of tourists visiting the island of Sardinia (Italy), by means of a choice modelling … approach. The focus is on some specific demand-enhancing effects which should confirm the feasibility of implementing … sustainable tourism policies. Multinomial logit estimations reveal the strong negative effects resulting from the congestion of …

This paper extends previous studies in modeling and estimating energy demand functions for both gasoline and kerosene … demand functions using more recent and robust techniques. In addition, the study considers an alternative model specification … which primarily captures the price-income interaction effects on both gasoline and kerosene demand functions. While the …

characteristics on the tourism destination choices of Irish households. The analysis is based on quarterly survey data of Irish …

. We also use the model to examine the impact of sea level rise on tourism demand. Climate change would shift patterns of …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 …

Environmental resources constitute the 'raw materials' for tourism. This sector represents the driving force behind the … enable their full exploitation. However, island systems have low stability, as they are highly sensitive to exogenous stress …. This work systematically examines the effects and the feedbacks that the economy of tourism may generate in small areas …

. Climate change can be expected to have an effect on this attractiveness and will subsequently alter patterns of demand. An …

International tourism is the principal economic activity for Small Island Tourism Economies (SITEs). There is a … strongly predictable component of international tourism, specifically the government revenue received from taxes on …, which is a unique SITE because it relies entirely on tourism for its economic and social development. As these receipts from …