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 …

This paper studies the evolution of cognitive connectivity through the lens of internal religious tourism. It does this … by tracing how traditional pilgrimage has transformed into a more immersive experience of modern religious tourism within …. Quantitative evidence utilizes data on visitations to religious sites to show the increase in internal religious tourism …

Purpose: Today religious travel, tourism and hospitality is a dynamic $18 billion global industry with 800 million …, which over the centuries have drawn millions of communities every year, turning it into an greatest TOURISM INDUSTRY of … bustle of a tourist town. Here pilgrimage has been taken to the fold of tourism in course of time. My case study is based on …

Though it has been practiced from ancient times but still the phenomena of Spiritual Tourism is very much complex in … the present era as it has not been recognized as a type of separate tourism. The emergent popularity of various spiritual …-formative spiritual growth.In a country like India where tourism is in the limelight for the religious pilgrims from many decades, but in …

The tourism-poverty alleviation nexus is becoming an increasingly significant subject of academic inquiry within the … tourism economics discourse. Using time series data from the World Bank (1995-2017) in a P-ARDL model, the present study … explores the relationship between tourism (receipts from exports, the travel subsector, hospitality and accommodation subsector …

The paper deals with the role of tourism in reducing poverty in upland economies. Taking cases from China and India, it … explores the local segments of the tourism value chain, or the local linkages of tourism. In assessing the impact on poverty it … looks at both the local share of tourist expenditure and the size of the tourism sector. Local benefits are looked at from …