This paper tests the visa-led tourism hypothesis (VTH) which contends that easing of visa restrictions increases international tourism. Israel acts as a natural laboratory in this case with clear before and after junctures in visa restrictions. We use panel data on tourism to Israel from 60...

Europe will remain the most visited touristic destination in the world with a total of 717 million tourists in 2020. The foreseen increase rate is 3.1% per year. This is one point lower than the world average, leading to a loss of market quota of Europe from almost 60% in 1995 to 46% in 2020....

Vrancea, the land of natural wonders, the land of old stories, the land of ancestral song and poetry unsurpassed by any Romanian land, is the most beautiful part of the Carpathian depression. This blessed land is a miniature Romania.Vrancea County has an extremely varied relief that is suitable...