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 … landscape and identifies the enabling and disabling factors for the development of ocean tourism in the Philippines. It …

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 …

been framed by a particular textbook model of location choice. This paper reviews the evidence on the economic causes and … model. The economics of migration will regain vitality and relevance by discarding and replacing its outworn paradigm. …

tourism industry as part of their regional development policies. The main objective of these programs is to increase local … investment and employment, as tourism activities are labor intensive. Little evidence is available, however, to assess the effect … introduced in 2002 to develop the tourism industry in the undeveloped region of Northeast Brazil. It provides evidence that …

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 … 2012 are years of economic recession. The analytical tool employed is a gravity model. Our results document that distance …

This paper sets up a two-period, two-sector trade model of a developing country which is abundant in a natural resource … but scarce in industrial goods. It shows that lower future travel costs, rising demand for tourism and higher preferences … for exporting tourism services. The benefits that accrue from sustainable resource use can be distributed over time such …

We examine how new airport infrastructure influences regional tourism. Identification is based on the conversion of a … new commercial airport increased tourism in the Allgäu region over the period 2008-2016. The positive effect is especially … regional economic development. …

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 …

This study examines the determinants of blue economy activities, namely tourism and fisheries, in 21 Asia and Pacific … island countries during the period 1996 to 2016. Using a panel data model, it was found that the size of the blue economy … that the size of the blue economy has responded positively to sustainable ocean management policies. Hence, our findings …