tourist sector and the increasing competition on the tourist market as a consequence of the transition from mass tourism to a … economics literature on tourism. The reason for this interest emerges from both the increasing economic importance of the … new age of tourism that calls for a tailor-made approach to the specific attitudes and needs of tourists. The central …

Tourism has become a wide-spread phenomenon in our age and a focal point of economic policy of many regions competing … present work is formed by the micro-based foundation of tourism attractiveness of competing areas (regions, cities, sites, etc … regions in Italy and compares next findings on tourist effectiveness with results on tourist efficiency from a previous study …

Italy’s domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism … dataset is made of inter-regional tourism flows among Italian regions over the 2000 - -12 period; across this period, 2008 to …

Research trying to explain tourism flows and expenditures for different destinations has so far adopted either a … tourism-demand or a tourism-supply approach. Whereas on the one hand the former ignores the product specificities … foreign tourist expenditures. This variable, recently made available by the Bank of Italy for the years 1997-2012, is more …

also the construction of numerous new facilities, which together affects the competition on the international tourism …The tourism worldwide is continuously making high development ascent and the same is a result of the expansion in the … market, where Republic of Macedonia also gives its national tourism product. This paper pays special attention to the hotel …

Nowadays many developing countries focus on economic policies for promoting international tourism and exports expansion … and economic growth is still ongoing. When treating the relationship between tourism and economic growth, considering … tourism as a non-traditional export few studies have been published to date. This paper has the objective to assess if exports …

This paper investigates residents' preferences towards cruise tourism investment in their home port. The research uses … data collected during the peak cruise season in 2011 at Messina, a port of call in Sicily, Italy. A generalized ordered … logit analysis is run to analyse what factors influence the residents' preferences towards investment in cruise tourism …

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that, all else being equal, for the case of Italy, tourist areas tend to … test whether total crime in Italy is affected by tourist arrivals. Findings confirm the initial intuition of a positive … relationship between tourism and crime in destinations. When controlling for the difference between tourists and residents in the …

Exploring the main determinants of tourism participation at national and international level, the paper investigates if … there are differences in tourism consumption behavior among Italian families which reflect disparities in their standard of …-2007. Results show that participation in the tourism market is strongly affected by the personal characteristics of individuals and …