This paper investigates residents' preferences towards cruise tourism investment in their home port. The research uses … data collected during the peak cruise season in 2011 at Messina, a port of call in Sicily, Italy. A generalized ordered … logit analysis is run to analyse what factors influence the residents' preferences towards investment in cruise tourism …

coastal tourism initiatives. The main research question is: "What lessons could we take from practical experiences?" A related …

sustainable port growth policies, through new or re-designed operational planning. As part of this, introducing new technologies … into port processes and ecosystems that factor in the environment, but have wider-reaching benefits, will enable a move … towards the port of the future. Although the expected consequences of a changed climate are one of the reasons behind actions …

We investigate how port privatization affects port charges, firm profits, and welfare. Our model consists of an … prices for port usage, although neither government has an incentive to privatize its port. The equilibrium governmental …'s government is more likely to privatize its port, although the larger country's government is more likely to nationalize its port …