borders. International tourism falls under General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) that provides a framework for … tourism as a service. Over the years, the tourism destinations as well as tourists by way of their origin have witnessed a … gradual but steady shift from developed to developing countries as delineated in the paper. Tourism has become the propulsion …

This Selected Issues paper for The Bahamas reports that the largest portion of tourism expenditure in The Bahamas comes … from stayover visitors, and total tourism spending has been stagnant. The Bahamas is a small open economy highly dependent … on tourism and the offshore financial sector. Private consumption expenditure in the country or countries of origin is …

международного туризма как в краткосрочном, так и в долгосрочном периодах (Tourism 2020 Vision). Образовательный туризм выделяется в …

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 … servicing a destination, are also found to be significant determinants of tourism demand. …

. Estimates of the elasticity of substitution suggest that tourism demand is highly price sensitive, and that a variety of costs … home, and consumption of tourism services across monopolistically competitive destinations abroad is presented. The model … tourist destinations. Estimates suggest median tourism arrivals decline by at least three to five percent in response to a one …

society\" I chose to present this subject in order to demonstrate the connection that exists between tourism and development …. Having as research topic \"Tourism and development in the Euro regional context†I dedicated a subchapter of this thesis … in presenting tourism as a development strategy. Thus we have analysed a series of specialised papers encountered at …

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 … applications of economic analysis to tourism policy and constructive assessment of contemporary thought about tourism economics …

The paper estimates the impact of macroeconomic supply- and demand-side determinants of tourism, one of the largest … dataset comprising the full universe of bilateral tourism flows spanning over a decade. The results show that the gravity … model explains tourism flows better than goods trade for equivalent specifications. The elasticity of tourism with respect …