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In this paper an econometric analysis of the domestic tourism demand of households in Sweden is performed. To model the … demand for tourism of households within Sweden, a two-staged budgeting model is used. The micro-economic data that are used … come from the Tourism and Travel Database, which is the main data source for the tourism and travelling behaviour of Swedes …
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After 50 years of artistic and popular acclaim, the world-famous Sidmouth Festival collapsed in 2004. Its management was unable to secure bad-weather underwriting worth £200,000, despite an alleged £5 million Festival contribution to the local economy. In examining the reasons for this...
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This paper estimates the total sales and sales tax revenue impacts on host communities of a variety of professional and collegiate sporting events. Using 126 jurisdictions from Texas, covering every month from January, 1990 through April of 2006, the analysis finds that regular season games in...
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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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There are not so many papers that the economic effects of tourism are examined in a general equilibrium framework. The … features of those papers are that they assume that tourism is regarded as non-tradable goods and services and that tourism is … economic effects of tourism promotion on low-income developing countries, we assume that most domestic residents cannot afford …
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receipts growth from $2.3 billion to $3.7 billion, respectively. According to the World Tourism Organization (WTO, 2006), the … tourism industry in Sub-Saharan Africa enjoyed a robust annual market share growth rate of 10 percent in 2006. In spite of … this, there are only few empirical studies that investigate the contributions of tourism to economic growth and development …
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L'objectif est de spécifier la nature des comportements saisonniers de la demande de séjours touristiques en Tunisie en utilisant les outils récents d'analyse des séries temporelles mensuelles. Les séries disponibles (dépenses touristiques, prix, revenus, nombre de nuitées, capacités...
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receipts growth from $2.3 billion to $3.7 billion (about 61 % growth), respectively. The tourism industry in Latin American … fact, there are only few empirical studies that investigate the contributions of tourism to economic growth and development …, this study investigates the impact of the tourism industry on the economic growth and development Latin American countries …
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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 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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