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Checking out? Hotels in smaller communities have weathered the downturn better than big-city siblings

Brissett, Jane - In: Fedgazette (2002) Sep, pp. 12-14

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The year of the minivan

Jossi, Frank - In: Fedgazette (2003) May, pp. 14-17

After 9/11, tourism took a turn toward safe, family options, which are a perfect fit for the district. …

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Economic Development and the Construction of Tourism-Based Livelihoods in an Urban Village, Yogyakart, Indonesia

Hampton, M.P. - Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth - 1997

Indonesian tourism policy has generally been top-down and biased towards attracting international mass tourism and … encouraging large, capital intensive projects. However, this paper examines locally owned, bottom-up tourism that developed to … growth of tourism since the 1970's and how it transformed a poor urban village. …

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Tourism and the Environment in Small Islands: a Case Study of Gili Trawangan, Lombok, Indonesia.

Hampton, M.P.; Hampton, J.M. - Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth - 1998

This paper explores the nature of the relationship between international tourism and the environment in a naturally … bounded area, a small tropical island. Since the 1980s international tourism in Gili Trawangan has increasingly replaced … agriculture and fishing as the dominant economic activity. Tourism on the island has grown in an unplanned way and is generally …

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Changing Patterns of Seasonality in Hotel and Tourism Demand: An Analysis of Portsmouth Monthly Arrivals Data.

Grainger, J.; Judge, G. - Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth - 1996

This peper examines monthly arriavls data for hotels in Porthsmouth for the period January 1987 to December 1994. The objective is to establish whether there has bee any change in seasonal pattern over time and investigate the extent to which various policy initiatives and special events have...

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Correctly Critiquing Casino-Crime Causality

Grinols, Earl L.; Mustard, David B. - In: Econ Journal Watch 5 (2008) 1, pp. 21-31

Professor Walker raises five concerns about our previous research on casinos and crime, published in the Review of Economics and Statistics. All of his concerns speak of potential problems and he includes no new results to provide evidence that the potential problems are actual problems or that...

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Corporate social responsibility in the tourism industry. Some lessons from the Spanish experience

Argandoña, Antonio - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2010

Tourism has been, and still is, a very profitable industry in Spain. But the Spanish model of tourism development …, we describe the Spanish model of tourism, the results it has achieved, the reasons for its longevity and the obstacles …

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The impact of the NAO index on European Airline Transit

Nadal, Jaume Rosselló - Centre de Recerca Econòmica (UIB ·"Sa Nostra") - 2009

Climatic variability and a substantial fraction of the most recent temperature warming in the Northern Hemisphere can be accounted for by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index. The most pronounced anomalies have occurred since the winter of 1989, with significant implications on weather...

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Road accidents and tourism: the case of the Balearic Islands (Spain)

Nadal, Jaume Rosselló; Saenz-de-Miera, Óscar - Centre de Recerca Econòmica (UIB ·"Sa Nostra") - 2009

rise in tourism associated externalities with vehicle crashes being the most common cause of injury for tourists. Within … presence of tourism has been neglected. Using the case study of the Balearic Islands, the present study estimates the role of … tourism in determining the number of accidents on a daily context, using the set of variables suggested by the literature and …

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A study of tourist’ attitudes and preferences for local products in Crete and changes induced by the current economic crisis

Proust, Remi; Angelakis, George; Drakos, Periklis - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

The Cretan tourism sector has been characterised by a large and rapid growth from 1970 to 2000 and has gone on the … primary industry of the island. Despite the fact that this growth has seemed stagnant over the last few years, tourism is … still of vital importance for the local economy. Agricultural industries are strongly linked with tourism activities and …

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