A large body of research has examined relationships between accessibility to green space and a variety of health outcomes with many researchers finding benefits in terms of levels of physical activity and relationships with levels of obesity, mental health, and other health conditions. Such...

SUMMARYThis article uses an input-output (IO) modelling approach to investigate the impact of the global recession on the expenditures of inbound and overnight domestic visitors and the wider effect on the UK economy. The results suggest that the economic crisis has had a negative direct impact...

SUMMARYThis article reports on work undertaken by the Tourism Intelligence Unit (TIU)1, based within Office for National Statistics (ONS), to measure the economic impact of tourism at the regional level. The methodologies and data analysis presented look at the demand and supply components of...

SummarySince its formation within the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in August 2008, the Tourism Intelligence Unit (TIU) has been working on the creation of an Integrated System of Tourism Statistics (ISTS), whose core component is represented by the E‐UKTSA (Experimental UK Tourism...

SummaryThe main objective of this work is to produce up to date and frequent figures of the demand and supply sides of the tourism sector. Demand here refers to tourism consumption or expenditure, while supply refers to the output from tourism related industries. This is carried out to address...

SummaryThis article uses an analysis of data from the Annual Population Survey to provide estimates of the characteristics of employment in tourism industries in 2008. The results indicate that employment in these industries is more likely to be part-time, self-employed or temporary than in...

Tudor Hart's 1971 study, based in Wales, was the first to hypothesise the existence of an inverse relationship which often prevails between those communities with the most pressing health needs and the lack or poor quality of health services provided locally. Over the last thirty years there...

This paper focuses on the use of geographical information systems (GIS) within primary and secondary health care sectors in the United Kingdom in relation to wider notions of 'joined-up' government -- a key tenet of central government initiatives aimed at addressing problems such as social...

Despite calls for a more collaborative approach to rural planning and policy making involving land use agencies in the British Isles, there remain few instances of formal inter-agency data exchange and integration to address applied management tasks. The well-rehearsed argument that Geographic...