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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Regional tourism"”.
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Stakeholder participation in regional tourism planning: Brazil's Costa Dourada project.
… developing countries are increasingly using tourism as a tool for regional development. While it is expected that tourism can bring substantial benefits, there is also evidence that it can entail negative social, cultural and environmental impacts, and clearly tourism at the regional scale …
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Strengthening Regional Tourism in Colwood, BC: An Examination of Effective Strategies for Leisure Attractions.
This thesis focused on how to strengthen regional tourism in Colwood, B.C., through effective strategies for leisure attractions. The objectives of the study were to determine how community stakeholders and local businesses have been involved in the development of the Royal Bay-Latoria South Parks …
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Linking climate change, tourist destination adaptation and tourist atttitudes : a case study of the Victorian Surf Coast region
The global tourism industry is particularly vulnerable to climate change due to its strong link to climate and natural ecosystems. Impacts such as warmer temperatures, increasingly frequent and intense storms, and sea level rise present a range of implications for tourism destinations from altered …
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Forecasting international regional arrivals in Canada
… However, hardly any published study has tested regional international arrival forecasting accuracy. This study focuses upon forecasting arrival to the main regions of entry to Canada, using quarterly international arrival flows into the provinces of Canada from 2000Q1 to 2007Q4. The aim of this …
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Ecotourism Assessment: Applying the Principles of Ecotourism to Paddle-Based Recreation in St. Lawrence Islands National Park and Environs
This study explores the concept of ecotourism in terms of Honey’s (2008) seven principles of ecotourism (involves travel to natural destinations, minimizes impacts, builds environmental awareness, provides direct financial benefits to conservation, provides financial benefits and empowerment for …
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Tourism Development in Small Midwestern Towns: a Case Study of Eight Communities in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri
… attempt to enhance economic development through tourism. It argues that recent changes to the global economy have often been detrimental to towns and rural areas. Tourism offers a viable option for local leaders to reverse these changing economic trends. The study region involves eight small …
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SMGI in tourism planning: the role of customers’ preferences in spatial decision support.
… is playing as an information resource in tourism both for customers (i.e. the tourists), who gather trustworthy information supporting the choice of destinations and services from peers, and for businesses, which can use the same information for improving their marketing strategies. The …
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Essays on electric vehicles, wildfires, and regional economic impacts
… that analyze how local communities respond to regional environmental and technological change. The first essay studies the role of public charging infrastructure in promoting electric vehicle (EV) adoption. Using county-level panel data from Washington State between 2019 and 2023, I estimate …
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The role of image in the promotion of a region as a visitor destination.
… destination. The inter-relationship between tourism and image was focused upon from both the potential visitor's perspective and the viewpoint of the promoter. Using the Grampian region in the North East of Scotland as a case study, visitors and non-visitors to the area were surveyed to …
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Information systems implementation and IT-enabled organisational change in the Eastern Caribbean tourism sector : an examination of factors impacting on the successful adoption and use of the Internet and web-based systems in national tourist offices and the Caribbean Tourism Organisation
… organisations responsible for the management of tourism in the small island developing states (SIDS) in the Eastern Caribbean. The key aspects of this work entail the examination oft the factors which impact upon the systems implementation process and IT-enabled organisational change, levels of …
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Adoption and non-adoption: Profiling Internet usage among tourists to New Zealand
… interchangeably within this research study. The tourism industry is also experiencing a rapid adoption of the internet technology for marketing travel products and services. As a destination New Zealand is a small country comprising two main land masses and smaller outlying islands, with a …
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Temporal and spatial aspects of tourism in Turkey.
Tourism supply and demand varies from one region to another and from one season to another in many destination countries. These variations provide certain benefits as well as problems and disadvantages. The developing countries need balanced development more than others as they need scarce …
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Selling Mexico: Race, Gender, and American Influence in Cancún, 1970-2000
… importance of Cancún, Mexico’s top international tourism resort, in modern Mexican history. It promotes a deeper understanding of Mexico’s social, economic, and cultural history in the late twentieth century. In particular, this study focuses on the rise of mass middle-class tourism American …
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Relazione tra contribuzione pubblica e performance economico-sociali nel settore turistico-ricettivo
… have been not extensively investigated in the tourism sector, especially regarding the economic and social performance of the hotels. This study aims to fill this research gap by analyzing tourism grants’ impact on different small and medium enterprises - SMEs located in the metropolitan area …
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Scale and locational effects on tourism multipliers: tourism and regional development in Indonesia.
… on the multiplier values associated with tourism expenditure in each of the regions of Indonesia. Furthermore, various factors are examined that determine the economic impacts of tourism to better understand how scale of accommodation and location can be used as a conceptual framework to …
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Regioninio turizmo situacija ir perspektyvos:Mažeikių rajono pavyzdžiu /
This master’s work analysis the situation of tourism and prospects of expansion in Mažeikiai district in the context of regional policy of Lithuania. Firstly, the leading fields of tourism of Mažeikiai district such as natural, cultural and sport tourism environment, infrastructure, their …
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Post-Disaster Road Network Resilience Assessment
… performance and resilience of the South Island regional road network following a potential Alpine Fault Magnitude 8 earthquake, this project was funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE) under the National Science Challenge (NSC) – Resilience to Nature’s Challenges …
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The impact of Gats: a case study of tourism development in Egypt.
… integrating countries into the global economy. Tourism is not only the dominant service in world trade, it has also become one of the most important industries in the world and its economic impacts are vital for many countries. The tourism industry has long supported the idea of services …