environmental quality. In particular, we show that the price of a hotel room depends positively on the level of investment to …. Regions with low investment in preserving environmental quality have a high probability of disappearing as a tourist …

importance of investment on the quality of tourism services. In this respect, the environmental quality of destination, has …The growth of the tourism sector in the last years, and in particular of the accommodation industry, has increased the … become a tool that hotels have to hold the tourism demand. In this paper we are going to present a model of vertical …

In a recent work, Ivanov and Webster (2007) present a methodology for measuring the contribution of tourism to economic … as a measure of economic growth and disaggregates it into economic growth generated by tourism and economic growth …

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the contribution of tourism to economic growth in Central American and … capita as a measure of economic growth. This will then be disaggregated into a growth component attributable to tourism and a … generating a performance measure of tourism’s past contribution to economic growth, will be applied to the period 1990-2007. We …

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 …

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 …

(cooperation) solutions, in a model of investment timing allowing for externalities in both flow profits and investment costs. For … two ex-ante symmetric firms, either preemption or attrition occur depending on the size of the investment externality …. Optimal cooperation involves either monopoly or duopoly investment, the latter being either symmetric or asymmetric. Finally …