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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"international tourism"”.
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Modelling and forecasting international tourism demand to China
China has experienced a massive growth in international tourism over the past two decades. To date, there have been few attempts to analyse this massive increase in the demand for international tourism to China. This study, therefore, employs modern econometric techniques to identify the important …
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International Tourism in Developing Nations: An Empirical Study
Theory: The literature on volume of tourism in developing nations, does not provide empirical measures necessary for rigorous hypotheses testing. While there have been ample studies on volume of tourism among developed nations, very little has been done regarding developing nations. Several …
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The economic impact of international tourism on Vietnam's economy
… study is to measure and analyse the impact of tourism development on Vietnam's economy. The study will concentrate on the activities of the tourist industry in 1994 in Vietnam as a whole. The measurement will be done by using the latest input-output tables for Vietnam, which were developed for …
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The employment effects of international tourism in South Africa
Tourism as an industry has taken on a key role in the South African economy over the past ten years. With an average growth rate of 8% between 1994 and 2000, much hope is placed in the industry to help reach economic growth goals and boost employment, especially in the previously disadvantaged …
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Estimating the international tourism demand for Egypt : 'an econometric approach'
… the main factors that significantly affect tourism demand for Egypt. Both time series data and panel data are used to model and forecast tourism demand for Egypt from all origins, as well as three individual regions of origin, including Europe, Arab and the Americas. The methodological and …
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An ARDL modelling approach to international tourism demand in Tanzania
… of this study was to model the extent of international tourist demand in Tanzania. Thus, the study aimed to investigate the factors affecting international tourism demand. Domestic tourism prices, travel costs, alternative destination tourism prices, exchange rates, world income and taste …
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Tourism potential of Yarra Bend Park with emphasis on international tourism
… to Yarra Bend Park considerable potential for tourism development and concludes that Yarra Bend Park has the capacity to serve as a unique tourist attraction for Victoria.
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Estimating and forecasting the economic impact of international tourism on Kenya
… a detailed analysis of the impact made by 1996 tourism expenditure on output, household income and employment in Kenya. Details of the methodology and data sources are provided and the results are analyzed. The result of an airport survey conducted in Kenya give an insight into how tourists …
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An exploratory study of international tourism demand from the selected countries to Taiwan
… technique to estimate the elasticities of international tourism demand from four generating countries (Japan, USA, Hong Kong and South Korea) to Taiwan for a set of potential important determinants: per capita income and population in the tourist-generating countries, relative prices, …
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The Impact of Local Environmental Quality on International Tourism Demand: The Case of China
… the impact of local environmental quality on international tourism demand based on a panel data set of tourist arrivals from ten foreign countries in 18 typical provinces in China over the period of 1999-2010. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) with different specifications show that the growth of …
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An econometric analysis of international tourism demand in Hong Kong : a cointegration and error correction approach
… origin countries that contribute to Hong Kong’s international tourism demand. To this end, we test alternative cointegration and error correction approaches to examine the economic determinants of tourist flows to Hong Kong, and to produce accurate econometric forecasts of inbound tourism demand. …
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Cuba's tourist industry: Parallel economies and social stratification
International tourism has played an important role in unintended social changes in socialist countries. These social and cultural changes affect not only the economic, political and cultural genre of the government, but also of its citizens; This thesis asks the question, "Has the re-introduction …
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A perfect wave? : reimagining tourism in Papua New Guinea
International tourism fundamentally "involves the human capacity to imagine or to enter into the imaginings of others."2 Correspondingly, places are essentialised as tourist destinations through the projection of particular images.
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A perfect wave? : reimagining tourism in Papua New Guinea
International tourism fundamentally "involves the human capacity to imagine or to enter into the imaginings of others."2 Correspondingly, places are essentialised as tourist destinations through the projection of particular images.
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Transnational Market and Community: The Social Relations of Kaqchikel Maya Vendors
… vendors are commonly seen selling at Guatemala's tourism sites. They are the subjects of postcards, guidebooks, and tourism brochures. Most often they are the only Mayas with whom tourists meet and interact. These vendors work and live most often within a tourism borderzone where Guatemalan state …
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Heritage Interpretation of the Dead as a Tool for Peace and Reconciliation: the Case of Visitor Development at Rwanda's Post-Conflict Memorialscape
… by the arrival and increase of local and international tourism to the national genocide memorials. Focusing on a less Western-centric approach towards memory, peace, heritage and (dark) tourism theory this study seeks to establish how the production and consumption of Rwanda’s …
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Forecasting international regional tourist arrivals to China
This study develops models to forecast international arrivals to regional China, using time series as well as causal explanatory methods. The nine quantitative forecast methods applied in this study are Holt, Exponential Smoothing, Naïve, ARMA, Neural, and Basic Structural Model (BSM) with and …
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An economic analysis of foreign tourism to Greece. An examination of the growth and structure of foreign tourism to Greece 1960-84 with a planning model and marketing policy recommendations.
Tourism - in particular its determinants and effects - is an issue presently attracting much attention worldwide. International tourism is considered to be the largest single item of the world's foreign trade and for some countries it is the most important export industry and earner of foreign …
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Difficult history : saving Yangon from colonial nostalgia
… through colonialism and slavery to the global tourism and pressure for economic growth today. I focus on Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma), which has the world's largest collection of Victorian and Edwardian colonial architecture. Years of active neglect by the military government have preserved …
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Categorizing Cruise Lines In The North America Market By Passenger Perceived Experience
… cruising is one of the fastest-growing forms of international tourism. Academic researchers have studied leisure-cruise consumers, but there is less research on the cruise industry, in particular on the structure of the industry. For example, the only method used for categorizing cruise lines is …
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