By bringing together people from different regions of Europe, twinning provides the framework to share issues, exchanges of views and understanding different points of view on any issues of common interest or common concern. In this paper, we aim to analyze the twinning commitment between two...

By bringing together people from different regions of Europe, twinning provides the framework to share issues, exchanges of views and understanding different points of view on any issues of common interest or common concern. In this paper, we aim to analyze the twinning commitment between two...

The attitudes and perceptions of local communities or residents are of special interest when examining and managing the economic, socio-cultural and environmental aspects of tourism development in a given area. This is of particular importance to Small Island nations like those located in the...

The Kenyan government sees ecotourism as having the potential of becoming a moderately useful tool for locally directed and participatory rural development based on a rational utilization of environmental and cultural resources on which tourism relays on. We therefore need a better understanding...

Tourism development has environmental and social consequences upon local and global communities. The impact of tourism must be kept within certain limits which are set up by sustainable tourism. Meanwhile the viability of the investment must be assured. Tourism development matrix is the tourist...

Tourism has represented one of the major sources of balance of trade earnings for many years in the most developed countries. According to estimates by the World Tourism Organization (WTO), world tourism flows will grow by 4-5% annually over the coming years, reaching in 2020 an estimated number...

International tourism is perhaps the only domain that under the economic crisis circumstances still records economic growth, and Romania has a major potential, but poorly capitalized, which exploited at optimum parameters, can be a solution for socio-economic revival of local communities.

Since 2019, Indonesian government has launched the development of a Special Economic Tourism Zone which consists of 8 areas with their own uniqueness and priority scale. One of them is Likupang, where this area is included in the super priority scale. The fundamental change is infrastructure...

In this paper, we examine some popular 'choice modelling' approaches to environmental valuation, which can be considered as alternatives to more familiar valuation techniques based on stated preferences such as the contingent valuation method. A number of choice modelling methods are consistent...

It is important but difficult to distinguish between desirable and undesirable effects of unemployment insurance (UI) that are observationally equivalent when designing optimal UI schemes. For example, a UI-induced rise in the wage rate caused by workers taking more time to match their skills...