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Revisiting Tourism Experience in the Experience Economy : Sociological and Psychological Perspectives

Maslova, Maria - 2017

The following work seeks to unveil a holistic image of the tourism experience phenomenon by bringing up new perspectives in the research and complementing it with the postmodern angle in order to increase its relevance. The article integrates two fundamental streams of tourism experience...

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Regulating Vice : What the U.S. Marijuana Industry Can Learn From State Governance of Sports Gambling

Holden, John T. - 2020

The United States has long been a country of prohibitions, with the most memorable prohibition in American history being the ban on alcohol sales in 1920, which lasted until the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. While the federal ban on alcohol has long since been...

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(Trade in Services Agenda Versus Digital Economy’s Potential : Regulatory Perspectives) Agenda multilateral en materia de servicios frente al potencial de la economía digital: pers...

Corredor, Guillermo Rodrigo - 2019

English Abstract: The sustained growth of global trade in services and their specific interactions with the so-called digital economy, is giving way to deep reflections on the State's role in regulating activities deployed in digital environments. In this scenario, the possibility of the...

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Travel and Tourism Competiveness Analysis

Bhardwaj, Atul - 2016

seeks to identify the factors that determine a country's competitiveness in this large and important industry. The study … uses the World Economic Forum's (WEF) competitiveness index, which is based upon multidimensional pillars of … competitiveness. A discriminant analysis is conducted, comparing 24 top ranked destination countries with 26 low ranking destination …

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Navigating the Legal Risks of Daily Fantasy Sports : A Detailed Primer in Federal and State Gambling Law

Edelman, Marc - 2016

Over the past two years, there has been a monumental shift in how U.S. professional sports leagues have perceived “daily fantasy sports.” Back in March 2013, the chief executive of Major League Baseball Advanced Media, Robert Bowman, told the New York Times that he perceived “daily fantasy...

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Esports, Skins Betting and Wire Fraud Vulnerability

Holden, John T. - 2020

Esports are now entering at least their fourth decade and are accessible internationally thanks to wide-spread global high speed internet access. The increasing recognition of esports in North America as a legitimate force in the sporting and entertainment markets, follows years of acceptance in...

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Trifling and Gambling with Virtual Money

Holden, John T. - 2018

Gambling, in particular sports gambling, is one of the most pervasive illicit activities in the United States. In contrast to Europe and parts of Asia that have vast legal networks of both online and brick and mortar betting parlors, the United States has largely confined sports betting to the...

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Taboo Transactions : Selling Athlete Biometric Data

Holden, John T.; Houser, Kimberly - 2021

As consumers begin to realize the extent to which their biometric and health data are being tracked through wearable devices, new privacy concerns have arisen. These concerns are more than hypothetical as the unregulated sharing and disclosure of biometric and health data may have serious...

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Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania's service sector

Ellis, Mia; McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Silver, Jed - 2017

Despite Tanzania's rapid recent growth, the vast majority of employment creation has been in informal services. This paper addresses the role that different subsectors of formal and informal services have played in Tanzania's growth. It finds that subsectors such as trade services contribute...

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The relationship between tourism and economic growth among BRICS countries : a panel cointegration analysis

Rasool, Haroon; Maqbool, Shafat; Tarique, Md. - In: Future Business Journal 7 (2021), pp. 1-11

Tourism has become the world's third-largest export industry after fuels and chemicals, and ahead of food and automotive products. From last few years, there has been a great surge in international tourism, culminates to 7% share of World's total exports in 2016. To this end, the study attempts...

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