The paper reviews the various methods and tourism development proxy variables used to measure the impact of tourism on economic growth. The growth decomposition methodology is employed with data for 174 countries for the years 2000-2010 to measure the impact of tourism on a country-by-country...

In this paper, the authors write about what the future of tourism after the fall of the American Empire. The authors describe the forces at work undermining the American empire and explain its likely trajectory. Then, the authors turn to the implications of this political event for tourism...

The authors explore the different approaches to political economy and the role that national tourism organizations (NTOs) may play in different national systems of political economy. The authors explain the different relationships between state, society, and economy in the four major archetypes...

The paper addresses the problem of the future development of tourism by focusing on three main issues: an analysis of what we can expect the future to look like in the next few decades; a full description of the tourism regulation regimes that are available to states and the most likely ones to...

In this paper, we look at the three broad capitalist models for political/economic organization upon which states organize themselves and then explore examples of those states and each country's response to tourism. In order to investigate this, we take two examples of social democratic states...

In this research note, the authors analyse the relationship between destination competitiveness and globalisation. Destination competitiveness is measured with the World Economic Forum's Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index, while globalisation is measured with the KOF Index of...

This research note investigates the impact of a destination's competitiveness upon tourism's contribution to economic growth using a cross-section with 131 countries. Destination competitiveness is measured with the World Economic Forum's Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index, while tourism's...

New technologies offer employers the ability to replace tasks done by human labor with those done by machines. There are challenges for both employers and employees, as employers look for strategies for the implementation of automation technologies and employees may have concerns about their...

This paper investigates the official tourism websites for the Balkan countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey to learn about their depiction of the nations for international tourism markets. The...