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Dominica; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
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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EXPENDITURES AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR OF THE TOURISM SPORTS IN ROMANIA
Răbonţu, Cecilia Irina; Durbăcea, Marian; … - In: Annals - Economy Series 4 (2011) December, pp. 165-170
In Romania, scale sports tourism gets well deserved lately. Tourism and sport has a close relationship since the beginning of their existence, and today we are witnessing a strengthening of it, because we talk about quality of life and greatly enhanced awareness of the beneficial effects of...
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Mountain Biking in India: a New Definition to Adventure Tourism
TANWAR, Shweta - In: Journal of Tourism Challenges and Trends 2 (2009) 1, pp. 137-141
Mountain biking is one of most prominent and widely used adventure tourism. It is a way for challenging ones‘ own self and testing in times of great danger. When we talk in terms of India, this mountain biking tourism becomes all the more important. As India is a land of diverse geographical...
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Tourism Development in the Catchment of Lake Fundudzi to Promote Sustainable Development
Khorommbi, Konanani; Coetzee, Willem; Geldenhuys, Sue - In: International Journal of Action Research 8 (2012) 3, pp. 310-341
In most instances, it can be argued that the resources of a particular area form the basis of its economic development. In the case of the present study, it was found that although the catchment of Lake Fundudzi boasts cultural and natural resources that are regarded as being of significance for...
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DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF ADVENTURE TOURISTS IN PRETORIA
Lötter, Melissa Jeanette; Geldenhuys, Sue; Potgieter, … - In: Global Journal of Business Research 6 (2012) 4, pp. 97-109
It is difficult to examine different motivations and segment differentiations in niche markets such as adventure tourism seeing that it is not a well-defined segment in the discipline of tourism studies. In order to assist adventure tourism companies towards identifying and developing effective...
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The Radegast Station Holocaust Monument - Its History, Contemporary Function and Perception in the Eyes of Tourists and Lodz Inhabitants
Waldemar, Cudny - In: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series 9 (2008) -1, pp. 97-106
The article presents the problems of the Lodz Ghetto organized by the Germans during World War II and the role of the …, commemorating the Holocaust of the Lodz Jewish population. Following that, the author presents the results of a survey conducted in … the monument area in 2007, which allowed the local authorities' activity and its indirect influence on the image of Lodz …
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The Radegast Station Holocaust Monument - Its History, Contemporary Function and Perception in the Eyes of Tourists and Lodz Inhabitants
Waldemar, Cudny - In: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series 9 (2008) 9, pp. 97-106
The article presents the problems of the Lodz Ghetto organized by the Germans during World War II and the role of the …, commemorating the Holocaust of the Lodz Jewish population. Following that, the author presents the results of a survey conducted in … the monument area in 2007, which allowed the local authorities' activity and its indirect influence on the image of Lodz …
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Fair framings: arts and culture festivals as sites for technical innovation
Schulte-Römer, Nona - In: Mind and Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and … 12 (2013) 1, pp. 151-165
The fascination and thrill of arts festivals relates to their capacity to host the unexpected, surprising and new. The … economic model of novelty bundling markets presents a rare attempt to account for the potential impact of festivals on … innovation. Its cognitive conception of festivals as sites of economic evolution offers a point of departure for this paper. The …
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THE ROLE OF CULTURAL TOURISM IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC REGENERATION OF COMMUNITIES
SLUSARIUC, Gabriela Corina; NEDELEA, Alexandru-Mircea - In: Revista de turism - studii si cercetari in turism / … 16 (2013) 16, pp. 39-42
International tourism is perhaps the only domain that under the economic crisis circumstances still records economic growth, and Romania has a major potential, but poorly capitalized, which exploited at optimum parameters, can be a solution for socio-economic revival of local communities.
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Subsidising Stan - Measuring the social benefits of cultural spending
Dayton-Johnson, Jeff; King, Emily - Department of Economics, Dalhousie University - 2003
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