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This article asserts that community matters, not least because of the continued importance of community demonstrated by residents of a post-fordist resort town in North Australia. Far from being an outdated concept, confined to stable rural villages, (as often argued in the literature), even...
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes the competitive threats to the tourism sector in the Eastern Caribbean Currency …
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This article analyses the determinants of the length of stay of Portuguese tourists taking vacations in Latin America, based on a questionnaire distributed on flights of a Portuguese charter airline, Air Luxor. A survival model is adopted to measure the relationship between vacation length and...
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Since the Chinese economic reforms, the government’s policy towards travelling and tourism activity has changed. The … conquer the international tourism market by package tours. However, the literature so far neglected the motivation of Chinese … tourism and foreign tourists in China. The identification of the specific preferences of Chinese travellers helps to assess in …
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This paper studies the economic implications of climate-change-induced variations in tourism demand, using a world CGE … subsequently perturbed by shocks, simulating the effects of climate change. We portray the impact of climate change on tourism by …
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Tourism is one of the largest and fastest growing economic sectors. Tourism is obviously related to climate, as … tourists prefer spending time outdoors and travel to enjoy the sun or landscape. It is therefore surprising that the tourism … literature pays little attention to tourism. The number of studies on tourism and climate change is, however, starting to grow …
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This paper presents an update to the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. It discusses that a tendency toward continual growth of the unemployment levels was verified in the urban region between 2000 and 2003 while during the same...
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An opening of Cuba to U.S. tourism would represent a seismic shift in the Caribbean's tourism industry. This study … on tourism between the two countries. After controlling for natural disasters, trade agreements, and other factors, the … results show that a hypothetical liberalization of Cuba-U.S. tourism would increase long-term regional arrivals. Neighboring …
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Croatia has a set of cultural, historical and natural attractions and also has a great tourism potential needed to be … supported by the sustainability concept of tourism development. Current Local Agenda 21 processes emphasize a cooperative … approach to identifying the community’s goals for tourism. Article present example of sustainable regional project in Croatian …
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