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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper is the first to apply an econometric shift-share model to tourism. The approach allows us to isolate the … does not share the caveats of the conventional shift-share approach. Our application to regional tourism in Austria reveals … host regions. And third, performance appears uncorrelated with tourism intensity of a region. Thus, from a policy and …

South Africa has turned towards tourism development to jump-start its weak economy. As tourism is a labour intensive … directly related to tourism. Despite South Africa’s rich and diverse natural and cultural assets, tourism development has been …-haul destination for many large source markets, good accessibility and international openness is key to expand international tourism …