This paper introduces a methodology to describe and compare the economic relative performance of the hospitality sector of the Italian regions during the period 2000-2004. Dynamics of the hospitality sector of each region is represented by the evolution of its economic efficiency. The...

The main aim of this study is to analyze the expenditure of the cruise passengers arriving in Costa Rica in 2008. The database was provided by the Costa Rican Tourism Institution and starting from this, we selected the main variables of the study. The independence proofs and regression analysis...

We introduce a model of tourism choice where we consider that the choice of a tourism resort by a tourist, depends not only on the characteristics of the product offered by the resort but depends also on certain characteristics - crowding types - of the other tourists that have chosen the same...

In this paper we search for the best SARIMA specification for forecasting arrivals in thirteen regions of Chile. We use monthly time series of arrivals from January 2004 to March 2009. The forecasting performance is assessed using data for the period October 2008 to March 2009. We use three...

This study investigates aspects of host perception to be used for the formulation of possible strategic tourism policies. A community segmentation framework with cluster analysis and multinomial logit model was applied to data of Folgaria - a small mountain community in Trentino South-Tyrol,...

Cruise tourism generates an estimated $18 billion a year in passenger expenditure and has been the fastest growing sector of the travel industry for the past twenty years with an average annual growth rate of passengers of 7.4%. Cruises can provide economic benefits to a local economy but the...

Purpose: Despite second homes having been extensively studied in the tourism area during the last two decades, there is a lack of updated review. This work presents a systematic literature review and a revision of the main issues studied. Methods: The document begins with a discussion about...

In this paper I describe and apply the methods of Symbolic Time Series Analysis (STSA) to an experimental framework. The idea behind Symbolic Time Series Analysis is simple: the values of a given time series data are transformed into a finite set of symbols obtaining a finite string. Then, we...

In this paper we present a formal definition of the notions of economic regime and regime dynamics. Starting from these definitions, we discuss a multiple regime dynamic model generating an endogenous unemployment-price adjustment mechanism. Two different employment regimes are introduced and...

This paper analyses the decision-making processes of heterogeneous agents, when both individual preferences and group actions are taken into account. Under the assumptions of certain topologies of interactions and assuming cognitive and informational restrictions, an agent-based model is...