This paper analyses the performance of Italian airports. We construct and estimate a data envelopment analysis, under Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes (CCR), Banker, Charnes and Cooper (BCC) and superefficiency models, in order to obtain efficiency scores for 14 airports for the period 2009-2011. In...

Purpose Over 15 years have passed since the first paper was published applying data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure airport productivity. Since then, a wave of studies has appeared refining and validating this technique as one of the most reliable in the airport context. The purpose of...

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo estimar la importancia del costo del transporte en la demanda de turismo receptivo de largo plazo en Uruguay para los turistas argentinos. Para ello el estudio considera información trimestral para el período 1998.I-2010.III y se aplica a los...

En este artículo se estudian las relaciones entre turismo, desarrollo y crecimiento económico bajo dos perspectivas. En primer lugar, se cuantifica la contribución del sector turismo al crecimiento de la economía antioqueña desde principio de la década del 90 hasta el año 2005. Se trata...

This study analyzes the behavior of repeat visitors to a cultural resource, in this case the Museum of Antioquia in Medellin (Colombia), by estimating travel cost model. The empirical results highlight issues such as women are more likely to re-visit the museum that age is also an important...

This study analyses cruise visitors' travel experience, their intention to return to a destination as land tourists and the probability to recommend. Consumer's satisfaction is evaluated by taking into account the economic production factors, that is human and physical capital. “Satisfaction...

Cruise tourism is growing faster than any other sector of the tourism industry, producing different impacts on destinations. From the social and economic viewpoint, the interactions between the different actors of the exchange process – cruise passengers, crews, residents and producers of the...