tourism industry as part of their regional development policies. The main objective of these programs is to increase local … investment and employment, as tourism activities are labor intensive. Little evidence is available, however, to assess the effect … introduced in 2002 to develop the tourism industry in the undeveloped region of Northeast Brazil. It provides evidence that …

Research trying to explain tourism flows and expenditures for different destinations has so far adopted either a … tourism-demand or a tourism-supply approach. Whereas on the one hand the former ignores the product specificities … will disentangle the effects of both demand and supply variables on a province's tourism exports. Among the former ones …

Italy’s domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism … dataset is made of inter-regional tourism flows among Italian regions over the 2000 - -12 period; across this period, 2008 to …

Turkey is among top ten countries in the world tourism market in terms of international tourist arrivals and … international tourism revenues. Tourism sector has grown rapidly over the last three decades and emerged as an important foreign … exchange earner. It is argued that tourism creates opportunities for employment and contributes to economic growth and …

The aim of the presented study was to evaluate the effects of education and research and development (R&D) on tourism … spending in a sample of OECD countries. The analyses were performed on the basis of data on tourism spending and data on … used in the panel data models. The results revealed the effect of R&D on leisure tourism spending (R&D→LTS) and the effect …

Changes in travellers' behaviour are among the most significant issues in the recent revolution of the tourism industry … tourism in the countries of the Baltic Sea Region. The findings of quantitative research, which has been carried out in the … form of survey, reveal that the behaviour of travellers of the Baltic Sea Region confirms that responsible tourism has …

, cultural relics, etc., which makes it possible to practice several forms of tourism: seaside, mountain, cruise, rural tourism … analyze the tourism potential of the region, using indicators that reflect the evolution of tourist units and their spread in …

The research problem is the implementation of technological innovations in health tourism services. The main purpose of … the paper is diagnosing determinants of technological innovativeness of enterprises that provide health tourism services … since until now, technological innovations in health tourism have not been described in economy literature. The results have …

This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …

In this paper, we investigate tourism-related policy approaches that WTO member countries adopted in the early weeks of … tourism scenarios, underlining both the demand and supply side effects of the crisis. By compiling and organising information … analyse tourism-related policies for 59 WTO Members across all continents. Our findings confirm that: (i) almost 90% of the …