This paper investigates residents' preferences towards cruise tourism investment in their home port. The research uses … data collected during the peak cruise season in 2011 at Messina, a port of call in Sicily, Italy. A generalized ordered … logit analysis is run to analyse what factors influence the residents' preferences towards investment in cruise tourism …

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that, all else being equal, for the case of Italy, tourist areas tend to … test whether total crime in Italy is affected by tourist arrivals. Findings confirm the initial intuition of a positive … relationship between tourism and crime in destinations. When controlling for the difference between tourists and residents in the …

tourism destinations, both at national and international level. In order to gain a significant competitive advantage over … existing research on tourism certifications mostly pertains to quality evaluation, this study exploits quantitative methods to …