The aim of this study is to analyze the economic impact of the Biathlon World Cup 2009 in Antholz-Anterselva. The survey concentrates on the immediate, direct and short-term additional revenue brought into the region by foreign sport event spectators. We first apply an expenditure-based...

This paper studies the impacts on economic growth of a small tourism driven economy caused by an increase in the growth rate of international tourism demand. We present a formal model and empirical evidence.The ingredients of the dynamic model are a large population of intertemporally optimizing...

The paper studies the dynamics of economic growth caused by an increase in the growth rate of tourism demand.We develop a simple dynamic model of a small open economy, which is completely specialized in the production of tourism services (island economy model), populated by a large number of...

The paper studies the macroeconomic effects of an increase in tourism demand due to an exogenous increase in foreigner's income one the one hand and due to marketing activities in tourism of a small country that specializes completely in tourism production. Using a dynamic general equilibrium...