This paper discusses the recent study by Grinols and Mustard (2006), which examines the relationship between casinos and county-level crime in the U.S. The authors conclude that casinos cause a significant amount of crime. However, there are a number of problems with their analysis. The most...

This is a second reply to Professor Walker that corrects additional errors by him. In his present commentary, Professor Walker again provides no new data or research, articulates comments that are already resolved through a careful reading of “Casinos, Crime, and Community Costsâ€...

In their reply to my comment (Walker 2008) Grinols and Mustard explained that in their original study (2006) their interest was “in the costs to the host county associated with a change in crime from whatever source†(Grinols and Mustard 2008, p. 22). In this rejoinder, I explain that...

Cointegration analysis has gradually appeared in the empirical tourism literature. However, the focus has been exclusively on the demand side, neglecting potentially-important supply-side influences and risking endogeneity bias. One reason for this omission may be the difficulty identifying...

Using data for all the fixtures for the seasons from 1972-73 to 2002-03, we estimate a dynamic model of demand for football pools in Spain paying attention to whether their main economic explanatory variable is the effective price of a ticket or the jackpot. Additionally, we evaluate the...

Achieving an integrated cultural and historic tourism offer is the main direction of thetourism development strategy for the Alba Iulia Fortress. The practice of implementing any strategyshows us that during this process a series of complementary or even antithetic projects and visions...

In the recent years, competitiveness has become one of the common conceptsemployed to approach and describe the sustainable development of the travel and tourism industry.Competitiveness of the travel and tourism industry, like of the tourist destinations, is defined takinginto consideration a...

Tourism is an activity carried on by individuals, which is usually enjoyed, and tobetter understand this economic phenomenon we must understand the person’s behaviour – thepsychology of tourists and of those who could become tourists. Knowing how individuals makedecisions and how they...