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We study a consumer boycott on cottage cheese that was organized in Israel on Facebook in the summer of 2011 following a steep increase in prices after price controls were lifted in 2006. The boycott led to an immediate decline in prices which stayed low more than three years after the boycott....
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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...
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[Introduction:] The route to customers is becoming increasingly digital, for any business. There is hardly any business that is not focussing on reaching customers online. The Covid-19 pandemic has further accelerated this trend. In many markets, digital platforms have become essential tools for...
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Der Tourismus hat für Schleswig-Holstein ein größeres wirtschaftliches Gewicht als in vielen anderen Bundesländern … diskutiert, wie sich die Bedingungen für ein qualitatives Wachstum des Tourismus in Schleswig-Holstein in den Corona …Tourism is of greater economic importance for Schleswig-Holstein than in many other German states. Therefore, the state …
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positive relationship between tourism and crime in destinations. When using the level rather than the rate of total crime and … tourist population. Therefore, the main explanation for the impact of tourism on crime seems to be agglomeration effects. …
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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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During their holidays, tourists produce direct and indirect effects on local residents, which can either be positive or negative. In this paper we investigate how residents of Rimini, a popular Italian seaside resort hosting more than ten million national and foreign overnight stays every year,...
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This paper examines the effects of tourism in a dynamic model of trade on unemployment, capital accumulation and … resident welfare. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital accumulation. The …, the expansion of tourism improves welfare. However, when the traded sector is strongly capital intensive, the fall in …
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This paper analyses the foundations, possible applications and the effects of tourism taxation in Spain. The article … begins with an analysis of the economic and environmental reasons for taxing tourism, which would seem to call for taxes … tourism taxation in Spain, with special mention being given to the now repealed Balearic ecotasa. Finally, the effects of two …
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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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