This paper presents the results of a quantitative survey among residing families of a small mountain community on their attitudes and perceptions towards tourism impacts and policies. In total 295 questionnaires accounting for approximately 20% of the population were collected. A factor analysis...

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...

Spanish Abstract: En este trabajo se estudia el desempeño económico de las provincias argentinas durante el período 1961-2000. El desempeño económico se define a partir de los diferentes regímenes que determinan el crecimiento y el producto per cápita anual que tuvo cada provincia durante...

This short paper analyzes the dynamic relationship between air transportation and economic growth in four South American countries, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay, investigating the linkages without imposing a priori any parametric model to represent them. A set of free-model tests (unit...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explain the determinants of the degree of visit satisfaction to the Guanajuato Mummies Museum. The study contributes to the literature related to perceptions and attitudes of museum visitors, by identifying what factors explain the satisfaction with the...

This paper investigates residents' preferences towards cruise tourism investment in their home port. The research uses data collected during the peak cruise season in 2011 at Messina, a port of call in Sicily, Italy. A generalized ordered logit analysis is run to analyse what factors influence...

Considering the importance of market segmentation as a marketing tool to determine promotional policies, this paper aims, through an empirical application, to determine the optimal way to choose both the best cluster algorithm and the best cluster partition.For this purpose, an empirical study...