Tourism is an industry of primary importance for the world economy. For some countries, tourism is the first source of … income and foreign currency, and many local economies heavily depend on tourism. Tourists are sensitive to climate and to … to leave their country of origin. Yet, until recently, the attention devoted by the tourism literature to climate change …

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore heritage tourism within the framework of ethnic identity by examining … tourism as a tool for promoting ethnic identity and traditions of the Maroons in Jamaica. Methods: Qualitative research using …’s ethnic identity can be promoted through ethnic tourism which is a form of heritage tourism. This form of tourism facilitates …

Travel agencies are the main actors of the tourism industry. Many touristic customers are involved in tourism …

economic development. The analysis of the rise of tourism in Egypt during the last three decades suggests that the effects of … decline of oil rent revenues during the 1980s tourism development was the optimal strategy to compensate for the resulting … fiscal losses. Increasing tourism revenues have helped in coping with macroeconomic imbalances and in avoiding more costly …

real tourism supply chain to specify main factors and propose hypotheses. We then statistically test the hypotheses using …

The main aim of the paper is to make an empirical investigation on tourism seasonality. Moreover, the research examines … seasonal patterns in tourism in terms of tourist arrivals. In this line, the case of Macedonia is studied by employing the Gini … and point to conclusion of having low seasonality in tourism. Hence, this empirical evidence confirm that tourism flow …

attracting a lot of foreign tourist. In 2008, Macedonian government put tourism product as a main focus in its policy. The … government make a essential document Strategy for development of Tourism in Macedonia from 2009-2013. The results of that … development of tourism, the tourist economy with its experience was not actively involved. Because of that, strategy was not …

tourism industry as part of their regional development policies. The main objective of these programs is to increase local … investment and employment, as tourism activities are labor intensive. Little evidence is available, however, to assess the effect … introduced in 2002 to develop the tourism industry in the undeveloped region of Northeast Brazil. It provides evidence that …

Research trying to explain tourism flows and expenditures for different destinations has so far adopted either a … tourism-demand or a tourism-supply approach. Whereas on the one hand the former ignores the product specificities … will disentangle the effects of both demand and supply variables on a province's tourism exports. Among the former ones …