The purpose of this study is to investigate the contribution of tourism to economic growth in Colombia. First, we perform an ex-post analysis and quantify the contribution of the tourism to economic growth from the early 90’s until 2006 by disaggregating growth of real GDP per capita into...

This study analyzes the behavior of repeat visitors to a cultural resource, in this case the Museum of Antioquia in Medellin (Colombia), by estimating travel cost model. The empirical results highlight issues such as women are more likely to re-visit the museum that age is also an important...

The main aim of this study is to analyze the expenditure of the cruise passengers arriving in Costa Rica in 2008. The database was provided by the Costa Rican Tourism Institution and starting from this, we selected the main variables of the study. The independence proofs and regression analysis...