Worldwide, tourism is the largest industry, with ecotourism being an important segment of the market. Every year, millions of tourists around the world visit protected areas (PAs) or travel to destinations for nature-based recreation.While PAs often supply the most important part of such...

In this paper we present an economic model to analyze the impact produced by changes of tourist's income on the demand for tourist services and on the investments of hotels on environmental quality. The ingredients of the model are an oligopoly tourist market with a vertical product...

In a recent work, Ivanov and Webster (2007) present a methodology for measuring the contribution of tourism to economic growth and apply this methodology to the cases of Cyprus, Greece and Spain. The method uses the growth of real GDP per capita as a measure of economic growth and disaggregates...

In this short paper we present a simple model of three tourist regions to study the incentives of hotels to invest in environmental quality. In particular, we show that the price of a hotel room depends positively on the level of investment to preserve the natural characteristics of the region...

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the contribution of tourism to economic growth in Central American and selected Caribbean countries (The Bahamas, Dominica, Dominican Republic and Saint Lucia). Following recent methodology presented by Ivanov and Webster (2007), this paper will...

This study contribute to the growing literature on repeat visitation by examining the factors that affect a cruise ship passenger's stated likelihood of returning to a visited port as a stay over tourist. Results from a survey of cruise ship passengers that stopped in Cartagena de Indias...