The current paper analyzes the importance and potentials of the tourism sector for economic development. It is divided … characteristics and importance of the tourism sector for economic development and employment are emphasized, examining the so … literature concerning the contribution of this sector to economic growth makes clear that tourism should be considered not just …

relationship between tourism and crime in destinations. When controlling for the difference between tourists and residents in the … groups. As a consequence, agglomeration and urbanisation effects seem to be the main explanation for the impact of tourism on …

The development of standards and certification programs in global tourism has gained importance in consumption …-production nexus. The paper is dealing with '€œFair Trade in Tourism South Africa'€ (FTTSA), one of the first innovative service … evolutionary trajectories of sustainable tourism standards from a knowledge-based perspective. This paper will contribute to a …

affecting the fishing and the tourism sectors in two different IPCC SRES scenarios, the A2 and B1, varying in the future trends … through increases in fishing effort, due to lower availability of commercial fish species, and decrease in tourism demand … larger when the tourism sector is affected. This is explained by the much higher contribution of tourism than fishery in the …

This paper investigates the impact of tourism policy on employment, using the Tourism Development Policy (TDP … evaluated policy -one specific sector in one province- we also construct a synthetic control for the tourism sector using a … tourism employment in Salta by an average of 11 percent per year, for an overall impact of around 112 percent between 2003 and …

We present a theoretical model in tourism economics, assuming that the market for tourism is an oligopoly with … capacity that can be interpreted as the stock of physical, natural or cultural resources. Tourism flows yield current revenues … questions, like the choice between mass- vs. elite-tourism development strategies; the effect of the number of competing …

We consider the relationship between tourism and economic growth for Latin American countries since 1985 until 1998 … variables. We show that the tourism sector is adequate for the economic growth of medium or low-income countries, though not … growth, we try to explain tourism arrivals conditional on GDP and other covariates such as safety, prices and education level …

This paper studies the economic implications of climate-change-induced variations in tourism demand, using a world CGE … subsequently perturbed by shocks, simulating the effects of climate change. We portray the impact of climate change on tourism by …

preferences: direct contacts with tourism flows. Tourists have the peculiar feature of being external consumers, who directly …, within a spatial estimation framework, tourism flows as determinants of regional total factor productivity, controlling also …. The empirical results show that tourism flows enhance regional efficiency and that a positive role is also played by …

This paper analyses the impact of Rural Development Program (RDP) measures focusing on tourism have on the growth of … tourism and on the economy in rural areas. We first explored tourism in NUT2 regions in the EU with a spatial data analyses … and then we applied spatial econometric analyses on tourism where we take into account the RDP spending on the measures …