Environmental resources constitute the 'raw materials' for tourism. This sector represents the driving force behind the …. This work systematically examines the effects and the feedbacks that the economy of tourism may generate in small areas …

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good … option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample … documented that the tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub-groups considered in our analysis (OECD …

tourism receipts in a trade based endogenous growth framework. The underlying assumption is that a rich biodiversity - only if … used sustainably - provides a comparative advantage in tourism for most DCs. The main empirical findings are that … biodiversity while being significantly and positively correlated with inbound tourism receipts in DCs, has no significant relation …

The tourism boom that started in 2011 shortly after the Eyjafjallajökull eruption has changed Iceland in many ways …. Economically tourism has quickly become the country's main export sector. Livelihoods and communities have changed with the influx … of foreign tourists and workers. Tourism has also exerted environmental pressures and degradation at many popular sites …

The aim of the Special Issue is to discuss the main current topics concerning marketing for sustainable tourism with … reference to territories (i.e., tourism destinations, protected areas, parks and/or natural sites, UNESCO World Heritage Sites …, rural regions/areas, etc.) and tourism enterprises and/or organisations (i.e., destination management organisations …

Open to trends in tourism development on European and world level, Romanian tourism improves under its impact … it owns. Developing a set of indicators based on performance which can be integrated into the ecotourism certification …, provides an objective and scientific assessment of implementation and development of programs in tourism, taking into …

partnership undertook initiatives to stimulate the regional economy by creating a tourism infrastructure. This paper presents a …. In 2004, the regional partnership also applied for the pilot measure to implement the EU Initiative Leader+. The tourism …

We present a theoretical model in tourism economics, assuming that the market for tourism is an oligopoly with … capacity that can be interpreted as the stock of physical, natural or cultural resources. Tourism flows yield current revenues … questions, like the choice between mass- vs. elite-tourism development strategies; the effect of the number of competing …

Tourism has been regarded as a major source of economic growth and a good source of foreign exchange earnings. Tourism … is the general equilibrium effects of tourism on the other sectors in the economy. These effects can be quite substantial … and should be taken into account when assessing the net benefits of a tourism boom on an economy. This paper presents a …