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Tourist taxes represent one of the principal sources of revenue for a number of local authorities. Using a dataset of more than 300 thousands reviews on TripAdvisor, we analyze the effect of tourist taxes on online ratings posted by hotel costumers. Online ratings are strategic variables for the...
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Ocean tourism contributes significantly to the economy of the Philippines, an archipelagic nation with one of the … how ocean tourism and economic development intertwine in archipelagic nations, examining national statistical data on … tourism and economic development in the Philippines over the last several years. Furthermore, it discusses the policy …
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While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents' quality of … pronounced in countries where tourism intensity is relatively high, as well as among people living in rural areas. In addition …
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Climate change is a major challenge for weather-dependent industries such as winter tourism. Existing climate change … change on ski tourism demand in order to improve the basis for assessing the economic impacts of climate change. A …
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generation. Tourism is one of the main economic drivers, with several pristine islands serving as leisure destinations for local …'s GDP and provided 5.4 million jobs. However, tourism is under threat from locally generated waste materials and those … reaching the shores from international waters. One of the most popular tourism destinations is the Siargao Islands, which …
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The study provides insights into how tourism can be managed to improve financial access in sub-Saharan Africa. The … coefficient, the Atkinson index and Palma ratio) are interacted with tourism (tourism receipts and tourists' arrivals) to … establish inequality levels that should not be exceeded in order for tourism to promote financial access in the sampled …
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This study complements the extant literature by assessing how the rule of law and political stability modulate tourism … development dynamics (i.e. tourism receipts and tourism expenditure) to affect economic development in terms of gross domestic … modulates both tourism receipts and tourism expenditure for overall positive effects on economic development and (ii) political …
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modulate the incidence of some macroeconomic factors (i.e. domestic investment and trade openness) on tourism development. The … in modulating domestic investment for tourism development in terms of tourism receipts. It follows that, for the sampled … countries, promoting tourism development can be most effective if policies for enhancing domestic investment and promoting the …
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Using a nationally representative household survey from India, we examine individuals' domestic tourism participation …
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We document a causal influence of online user-generated information on realworld economic outcomes. In particular, we conduct a randomized field experiment to test whether additional information on Wikipedia about cities affects tourists' choices of overnight visits. Our treatment of adding...
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