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This paper investigates the determinants of tourism demand in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. We estimate the demand function in a panel setting using annual data from 1979 to 2005. Results show that tourism arrivals are significantly affected by economic developments in the source...
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Handbook of Tourism Economics: Analysis, New Applications and Case Studies provides an up-to-date, concise and readable coverage of the most important topics in tourism economics. It pays attention to relevant traditional topics in tourism economics as well as exciting emerging topics in this...
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Public understanding of ecotourism is reported to vary widely in Latvia. Today, ecotourism is becoming more and more … related to the tourism policy. Ecotourism in Latvia is still a novelty, thus making it a necessity to recognize it's trends … and to develop an effective ecotourism model, which will then serve as an important tool for protecting the environment …
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The Malawi Growth and Development Strategy II (MGDS-II) is a poverty reduction strategy for the period 2006–11, which is aimed at fulfilling Malawi’s future developmental aspiration—Vision 2020. The strategy identifies broad thematic areas and key priority areas to bring...
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The Growth and Social Protection Strategy (GSPS) provides the framework for Dominica’s economic and social policies over the next five years and sets out the macroeconomic framework; the growth strategy, including the enabling environment for private enterprise and sectoral strategies;...
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Ghana has pursued several programs to accelerate the growth of the economy. In 1995, the government presented “Ghana: Vision 2020,†aimed at making Ghana a middle-income country in 25 years. Vision 2020 focused on human development, economic growth, rural development, urban...
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Griechenland befindet sich im südöstlichen Teil von Europa und bildet in einer der größten Halbinseln von Südeuropa (die restlichen zwei sind westlich die Iberische und im Zentrum die Italienische Halbinsel) einen Teil der balkanischen Halbinsel. Griechenland hat eine Fläche von 131.957...
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Advocates of national park are often of the opinion that benefits from ecotourism will compensate people whose … distance of their homes to a national park and future economic benefits from ecotourism when eliciting their willingness to pay … for rural road that could help improve access to the park for ecotourism. The possibilities for designing an ecotourism …
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Over the past two decades, ecotourism has emerged as an important conservation strategy, especially in the Tropics … about the sustainability of ecotourism in terms of distributions of income to local people and degradation of ecosystems … ecotourism at the country scale for Belize, Central America. The model includes state variables for natural ecosystems and …
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