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Creating "Paradise of the Pacific": How Tourism Began in Hawaii
Mak, James - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2015
about 1870 to 1940. Tourism began in Hawaii when faster and more predictable steamships replaced sailing vessels in trans …-Pacific travel. Governments (international, national, and local) were influential in shaping the way Hawaii tourism developed, from … government mail subsidies to steamship companies, local funding for tourism promotion, and America's protective legislation on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011162957
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How Big? The Impact of Approved Destination Status on Mainland Chinese Travel Abroad
Arita, Shawn; Croix, Sumner La; Mak, James - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2012
China’s Approved Destination Status (ADS) policy governs foreign leisure travel by citizens to ADS-designated countries. To model the effects of ADS on Chinese visitor arrivals, we specify a model of demand for a representative Chinese consumer who values trips to n differentiated foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552343
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How China's Approved Destination Status Policy Spurs and Hinders Chinese Travel Abroad
Arita, Shawn; Croix, Sumner La; Mak, James - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2012
China’s “Approved Destination Status (ADS) policy allows citizens of mainland China to take pleasure trips abroad on group package tours to countries that have negotiated and implemented agreements with China. In this paper, we examine the reasons for this unique preferential and incremental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010563939
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How ChinaÕs Approved Destination Status Policy Spurs and Hinders Chinese Travel Abroad
Arita, Shawn; La Croix, Sumner; Mak, James - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2012
ChinaÕs ÒApproved Destination Status (ADS) policy allows citizens of mainland China to take pleasure trips abroad on group package tours to countries that have negotiated and implemented agreements with China. In this paper, we examine the reasons for this unique preferential and incremental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010565789
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How ChinaÕs Approved Destination Status Policy Spurs and Hinders Chinese Travel Abroad
Arita, Shawn; La Croix, Sumner; Mak, James - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2012
ChinaÕs ÒApproved Destination Status (ADS) policy allows citizens of mainland China to take pleasure trips abroad on group package tours to countries that have negotiated and implemented agreements with China. In this paper, we examine the reasons for this unique preferential and incremental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010567100
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How Big? The Impact of Approved Destination Status on Mainland Chinese Travel Abroad
Arita, Shawn; La Croix, Sumner; Mak, James - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2012
ChinaÕs Approved Destination Status (ADS) policy governs foreign leisure travel by citizens to ADS-designated countries. To model the effects of ADS on Chinese visitor arrivals, we specify a model of demand for a representative Chinese consumer who values trips to n differentiated foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933407
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How China's Approved Destination Status Policy Spurs and Hinders Chinese Travel Abroad
Arita, Shawn; La Croix, Sumner; Mak, James - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2012
China's Approved Destination Status (ADS) policy allows citizens of mainland China to take pleasure trips abroad on group package tours to countries that have negotiated and implemented agreements with China. In this paper, we examine the reasons for this unique preferential and incremental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010925474
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The Impact of Approved Destination Status on Chinese Travel Abroad: An Economic Analysis
Arita, Shawn; Edmonds, Christopher; Croix, Sumner La; … - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2009
Since the early 1990s China’s government has negotiated Approved Destination Status (ADS) with 120 countries. The agreements allow government-approved travel agencies to market group tours and obtain visas in bulk to ADS destinations. We apply a gravity model framework to analyze how ADS has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533411
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The Impact of 9/11 and Other Terrible Global Events on Tourism in the U.S. and Hawaii
Bonham, Carl; Edmonds, Christopher; Mak, James - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2006
This paper reviews recent trends in travel and tourism in the U.S. and Hawaii to ascertain how the terrorist attacks of … 9/11 and subsequent terrible global events affected their tourism flows and the manner and pace of their recovery. We … note that tourism in the U.S. has not fully recovered from 9/11 and other international shocks; indeed recovery of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572305