Exploring the main determinants of tourism participation at national and international level, the paper investigates if … there are differences in tourism consumption behavior among Italian families which reflect disparities in their standard of …-2007. Results show that participation in the tourism market is strongly affected by the personal characteristics of individuals and …

The current study investigated whether tourism-related small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) perform better than … non-tourism-related SMEs in the four main coastal tourist destinations - Hikkaduwa, Galle, Mirissa, and Tangalle - in the … objectives of the research. More specifically, they surveyed 200 SMEs, of which 117 were related to tourism and 83 were not, to …