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The tourism labour market is facing major challenges, such as the shortage of labour or the high fluctuation of workers … of external shocks on tourism demand, there have so far been only a few tourism studies that deal with the specific … consequences of external shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic for the tourism labour market and the companies affected. [...] …
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livelihood of islands with small populations and territory which are present in each of the world's great oceans. The Small … Island Tourism Economies analysed in this paper vary profoundly in their size, land area, and location. Moreover, they have … their prospects for self reliance in economic development, and their overwhelming reliance on tourism as a source of exports …
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This paper studies the economic implications of climate-change-induced variations in tourism demand, using a world CGE … subsequently perturbed by shocks, simulating the effects of climate change. We portray the impact of climate change on tourism by … changes of consumption preferences for domestically produced goods. The second shocks reallocate income across world regions …
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pay for outbound tourism goes hand in hand with an increasing per capita income in the world. …In this paper we discuss the determinants which contribute to outbound tourism expenditures. The aim is to show whether … capita income and the openness to trade on the tourism expenditures per capita as well as on the tourism expenditure per GDP …
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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....
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on the economic assessment of two specific climate change impacts: sea-level rise and changes in tourism flows. By using … impact category to the final result. In the case under scrutiny demand shocks induced by changes in tourism flows outweigh …
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We analyze the empirical relationship between growth, country size and tourism specialization by using a dataset … covering the period 1980-2003. We find that tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub …-groups considered in our analysis. Tourism appears to be an independent determining factor for growth, and the reason for that is …
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Past worker flows show that among the sectors hit hard by the COVID-19 epidemic, workers in "Transportation" accumulate relatively more human capital. In the event of large worker reallocation, this sector's productivity would be hit harder and need longer to recover due to the loss of firm and...
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In Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia, Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …
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