higher productivity than non-tourism-related SMEs. The estimated models also confirmed that factors such as firms' capital …The current study investigated whether tourism-related small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) perform better than … non-tourism-related SMEs in the four main coastal tourist destinations - Hikkaduwa, Galle, Mirissa, and Tangalle - in the …

the business incubators can ensure the success of tourism, with evidence grounded in both theory and case studies from … the benefit of start-ups in the tourism sector, such as network incubators, incubators in ecotourism or nature …

this article is to highlight the connection between the tourist destination, competitiveness, sustainable tourism in …

Tourism and environmental preservation are often conflicting activities, mainly in areas such as coastal lagoons, where … seaside mass-tourism comes into contact with a very sensitive ecological system. In this paper we deal with a classical … problem of both environmental and tourism economics, the internalization of environmental costs of tourism, focusing on the …

Nature based tourism has been a very important source of income and employment in Meghalaya as the state is endowed …

factors of the Mankiw, Romer and Weil type of models. Tourism specialization appears to be an independent determinant. A …Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good … option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample …

highlighted poverty eradication as one of its main mottos. The UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the apex body of tourism … development also advocated the MDGs and quoted Tourism as a ‘War on Poverty’. Since then, Tourism has been widely considered as a … endorsed the power of Tourism in alleviating poverty. However, the voice is not unanimous across the academic community across …