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 …

This article investigates whether the distance between origin and destination has played an increased role in shaping … 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 …

acting as image builders for their host destinations. Equivalently, the image of a destination can have an impact on event … perceptions, resulting in careful considerations for event managers and destination stakeholders to make when pairing an event … with a host destination. This has resulted in a significant increase in publishing activity of image impacts on events and …

their competitiveness or risk losing out on tourist revenues. While the research into destination competitiveness and … visitors. This paper examines the potential effects of e-services in an inclusive model of destination loyalty towards the city …

in a tourism destination. Destination manager has to choose how to allocate limited resources (capital and land) between …The authors solve a linear problem where a potential conflict between two agents (Destination manager and Firm) arises … ; investment decisions ; tourism and land use …