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 …

regional partnership undertook initiatives to stimulate the regional economy by creating a tourism infrastructure. This paper …. In 2004, the regional partnership also applied for the pilot measure to implement the EU Initiative Leader+. The tourism … additional non-agricultural income sources for farmers. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG TOURISMUS ALS EINE MÃGLICHKEIT ZUR ERHÃHUNG DES …

General background is provided on the potential of tourism growth to contribute to economic development, paying … particular attention to the experience of Sri Lanka. An overview of trends in inbound tourism to Sri Lanka is presented with … tourism markets, the composition of its tourist arrivals by area of origin, the extent of foreign earnings by the Sri Lankan …

Reports on turtle-based tourism at Mon Repos in southern Queensland, pointing out that tourism can have either positive … or negative effects ecotourism depending on the way it is conducted or developed. However, turtle-based tourism at Mon …