Marked segment constituted by people having any kind of handicap is gaining increasing prominence for tourism. The … participation in tourism market, leads us to consider this as a business opportunity for tourism industry. It is therefore important … competitiveness for tourism business. …

We analyze the empirical relationship between growth, country size and tourism specialization by using a dataset … covering the period 1980-2003. We find that tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub …-groups considered in our analysis. Tourism appears to be an independent determining factor for growth, and the reason for that is …

Africa’s tourism potential is acknowledged to be significant but underdeveloped. This paper uses both cross …-section data and panel data for the period 1996–2000 to identify the determinants of tourism arrivals in 43 African countries …, taking into account tourists’ country of origin. The results strongly suggest that political stability, tourism …

Using a large administrative matched employer-employee dataset we analyse the gender wage gap in the Portuguese tourism … labour market. As background, employment and pay in the tourism industry is thoroughly characterized. Using the Oaxaca … workers in tourism. Our estimate of the coefficient of discrimination in the tourism industry (8.4 percent) puts it well below …

isolated from mass markets. With these characteristics, to define only the priority to tourism is clearly insufficient for …: the lagging regions, which are trying to converge with the more developed ones based on tourism, cannot only rely on a …

The tourism industry is the leading segment of the services industries in small island developing states (SIDS). This … paper therefore seeks primarily to investigate both the nature and determinants of tourism competitiveness in SIDS. Judging … from the various calculated indices of tourism competitiveness, the competitive position of tourism in SIDS is a major …

Recent research on achieving sustainable heritage tourism in Macau advocates a greater collaboration between tourism … and heritage management authorities and the local community on reaching sustainable tourism goals. A key theme for Macau … cultural heritage product development has played out in government policies for heritage management, private sector tourism …

The paper studies the short run and long run effects of a production subsidy to the tourism sector of a small open … where the tourism sector is considered to be labor-intensive and produces traded services. The other sector is capital … choosing consumption of both the nontraded good and tourism services, the sectoral allocation of labor, and the rate of wealth …