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We use daily airplane arrival data from Hawaii’s Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to determine … the net change in tourism for a variety of sporting events. We find two events generate a positive and significant net …
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This paper provides an empirical examination of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our analysis of taxable sales in the counties in which Olympic events took place finds that some sectors such as hotels and restaurants prospered while other retailers such as general...
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Religious tourism and tourism in general helps in the development and intensification of social and cultural relations …. The issue of religious tourism comes under the general and sustainable development of alternative tourism, special … interest and respect for holy places. Religious tourism is an emerging form of tourism which aims to quality and sustainable …
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This paper evaluates how changes in the provision of HSR services do affect Tourism outcomes in Spain, a touristic … tourist activity, but offers a negative statistically significant impact on tourism outcomes when evaluated at Province level …
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Tourism sector is playing an important role in the development of a region, contributing to the economy growth and job … creation. Despite of the actual crisis, Tourism activities continues to growth in the last year (UNWTO 2011). Also, Spain … maintains in the better positions of the world ranking. Furthermore, Tourism activities generate around 10% of GPD and …
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in fields related to tourism. At the same time, gastronomic tourism represents one of the most important business … opportunities, allowing direct contact between food sector producers and tourists. Moreover, food related tourism is a key factor of … success for local food fests and food markets based in touristic destinations. Thus, food related tourism represents an …
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Tourism research in its content and methodology is based on numerous statistics. The type and nature of the statistical … data used in tourism research can be different and it can relate to general statistical data such as demographics, economic …, transport data etc. or they can apply it specifically to the tourism indicators. A key factor for quality tourism research …
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The main goal of this research paper is to provide a quantitative assessment of the Romanian tourism industry (hotels … counties that can be considered as indicators of the development perspectives of the tourism (hotels and restaurants) at county …
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Tourism satisfaction is one of the most important components in the analysis of tourism behavior as, it not only … affects the choice of tourism destination and the consumption of products, but also affects tourist's future decision to … choice to revisit those destinations, the relationship between them and the consideration of the causes that shape tourism …
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In the present paper we put forward a clear assessment of the Romanian rural tourism, from a regional perspective … of the Romanian rural tourism at NUTS level 3, focusing on its main determinants and key regional poles of development …. The novelty of the paper lays in developing one of the first composite indices measuring the rural tourism sector, in the …
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