To capture the role of politics in tourism, we propose a novel measure to quantify political relations based on text … analysis of published diplomatic statements. We explain how political relations affect outbound tourist flows from China to … Japan and Korea. Estimated on monthly data (1997m1-2018m12), our model shows how China-Japan disputes affect tourist flows …

Italy’s domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism … dataset is made of inter-regional tourism flows among Italian regions over the 2000 - -12 period; across this period, 2008 to …

of these demonstrations and attacks on one important industry, namely tourism. Combining a novel, district-level data set … on tourism with data on xenophobic activities, we find that xenophobic demonstrations have negative effects on tourist …