Based on the gravity model, this paper analyzes China and South Korea's tourism patterns. Using a panel data set of … China's international tourism flows from 32 countries for 1995-2012, and Korea's international tourism flows from 152 …

Tourism has long been important part of the economy. Specifically, it serves as a kind of resource that performs a … significant role in national economies. With the rise of globalization, cross-border tourism has grown and induced intense … domestic tax serves as the source of funding for the improvements to the infrastructure of domestic tourism, including the …

tourism industry as part of their regional development policies. The main objective of these programs is to increase local … investment and employment, as tourism activities are labor intensive. Little evidence is available, however, to assess the effect … introduced in 2002 to develop the tourism industry in the undeveloped region of Northeast Brazil. It provides evidence that …

This paper analyses the impact of Rural Development Program (RDP) measures focusing on tourism have on the growth of … tourism and on the economy in rural areas. We first explored tourism in NUT2 regions in the EU with a spatial data analyses … and then we applied spatial econometric analyses on tourism where we take into account the RDP spending on the measures …

The development of a region is subject to its ability to attract business activities and the right blend of people to … region's location is a key factor among them. Hence, isolated regions are at a disadvantage in attracting business activities … adversely affected by geographical discontinuity and they should focus on specific activities. Tourism is such an activity for …

Italy’s domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism … dataset is made of inter-regional tourism flows among Italian regions over the 2000 - -12 period; across this period, 2008 to …

tool. This tool will meet the specific needs of tourism and the needs of regional business and government, according to …Tourism doesn't depend on a specific resource and enable the integration of local populations and economies, generating … benefits that have a stronger effect on regional development. Literature main stream identifies tourism as one of the …