Ethiopia holds all the necessary ingredients for tourism development, given the multitude and uniqueness of attractions … tourism development stage according to the tourism area cycle stage. The Lake Tana visitation trends followed an ascending … pattern, figures show domestic tourism as being the most prevalent. The southern part of Lake Tana accounts for 28,3% of the …

tourism flows, induced by climate change, for some Mediterranean countries. Estimates by a regional climate model are used to … build a Tourism Climate Index, which indicates the suitability of climate, in certain locations, for general outdoor … tourism flows by means of a computable general equilibrium model. We found that more incoming tourists will increase income …

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the contribution of tourism to economic growth in Central American and … capita as a measure of economic growth. This will then be disaggregated into a growth component attributable to tourism and a … generating a performance measure of tourism’s past contribution to economic growth, will be applied to the period 1990-2007. We …

receipts of tourism as one of the world biggest and fastest growing industries. The intention of our examination is to present … that tourism may be an important chance for economic growth in developing countries. We assume that biodiversity is an … important factor influencing the demand for tourism. In other words: a rich biodiversity provides a comparative advantage for …

tourism receipts in a trade based endogenous growth framework. The underlying assumption is that a rich biodiversity - only if … used sustainably - provides a comparative advantage in tourism for most DCs. The main empirical findings are that … biodiversity while being significantly and positively correlated with inbound tourism receipts in DCs, has no significant relation …

Nature based tourism is the fastest growing tourism in many parts of the world. The attitude towards conservation of … site-specific characteristics of tourists. The study was conducted in Sikkim, which is India¡¯s prime nature based tourism …

We analyze whether biodiversity is increasing the receipts of tourism and beneficial for Least Developed Countries … have a comparative advantage in (sustainable) tourism, that second incidence of birds as the probably best explored … taxonomic group has a positive impact on inbound tourism receipts per capita, and that third the rate of endangered to total …

Site-specific characteristics are attributes of tourism services for consumers and a factor influencing their costs and …-competitive market, and recover the value of territorial rent generated by tourism managers' strategies. Two territories of reference are …

As tourism is becoming one of the most important sectors of the world economy, the number of small islands trying to …