The early days of tourism development had a naïve vision of tourism’s impacts on society in terms of economic, social …, and environmental benefits. Time has passed, and we have learnt lessons regarding the success and failure of tourism … development. Mass tourism development has pros and cons and is not necessarily the optimal development model. Alternative …

To capture the role of politics in tourism, we propose a novel measure to quantify political relations based on text … analysis of published diplomatic statements. We explain how political relations affect outbound tourist flows from China to … Japan and Korea. Estimated on monthly data (1997m1-2018m12), our model shows how China-Japan disputes affect tourist flows …