This Ph. D. dissertation discusses the measurement of the macroeconomic impacts of tourism. Chapter 1 establishes the … conceptual framework for measuring the macroeconomic impacts of tourism. Chapter 2 critically evaluates the methods currently … used to measure the macroeconomic impacts of tourism. Chapter 3 develops specific methodologies to measure the economic …

The paper analyses the impacts of tourism on jobs and incomes in Bulgaria. Direct and indirect impacts of four tourism … transport, and auxiliary transport services and travel anegcies. Results show that tourism generates predominantly low paid jobs …, with salaries in public tourist companies much higher than in private firms. Interindustry impacts of tourism are …

The study examines the Tourism Satellite Account as a tool for measuring the macroeconomic impacts of tourism. In … Chapter One the essence, structure, strengths and weaknesses of the Tourism Satellite Account are elaborated. In Chapter Two … the macroeconomic impacts of tourism are defined and the possibilities for their measurement with the help of the Tourism …

Promoting a country's destination is one of the major tasks of a National Tourism Organization (NTO). NTOs have many … ways in which to promote their countries' tourism products, one of which is participating in tourism and travel fairs. This … paper analyses the effectiveness of destination promotion through tourism fairs by investigating the practice of the …

A key player in tourism development and promotion is the state. However, previous research has not adequately measured … the effectiveness of the state's attempts to promote a country's tourism product. In this research, the authors will use … an econometric model to measure the impact of the Croatian, Czech, and Slovak states' attempts to promote their tourism …

Previous research has not adequately measured the effectiveness of a state's promotion of its tourism product. In this … promote their tourism products abroad. The findings show the effectiveness of the state's attempts to market their products …. The dependent variables in the analysis are two measures of tourism demand-overnights and tourist arrivals. Various …

The paper presents a methodology for measuring the contribution of tourism to an economy's growth, which is tested with … disaggregate it into economic growth generated by tourism and generated by other industries. We argue that current methodologies … examine only the relationship between tourism development (measured by different statistics) and economic growth but do not …

The paper analyses the possibilities to develop communist heritage tourism in Bulgaria. After a review of related … literature, the paper identifies five characteristics of communist heritage tourism: ideologically overburdened type of tourism … resources for communist heritage tourism development in Bulgaria and the potential market segments for communist heritage …

Is there a link between a state's form of political and economic organization and a state's response to tourism? In … of those states and each country's response to tourism to determine to what extent the choice of response to tourism is … influence greatly the state's reaction to the challenge of tourism. The investigation has implications for states in the current …

the tourism and hospitality industries to adopt automation in business operations. Design/methodology/approach. The … for the travel, tourism, and hospitality industries. Findings. There are three major solutions to the demographic problem … trends to the use of automation in the travel, tourism, and hospitality industries …