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This Selected Issues paper analyzes sustaining potential growth in Aruba. As in the other Caribbean countries, there are growing concerns in Aruba about the slowdown in economic growth over the past two decades and the consequent tepid outlook for potential growth. Tackling such concerns...
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tourism for a number of PICs. Moreover, if a strong two-way linkage is established between tourism and agriculture, Pacific …
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Purpose: Although the branding literature emerged during the 1940s, research relating to tourism destination branding … tourists in Chile, which reflects the lower priority the South American market has been given by the national tourism office …-branding literature by being one of the first to test the efficacy of a model of consumer-based brand equity for a tourism destination …
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equity (CBBE) for a destination, from the perspective of residents as active participants of local tourism. It is proposed …
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Ex-post economic impact evaluations are standard requirements for loans and grants from multilateral international development institutions. In many cases, however, lack of sufficient baseline or historical data, or the very nature of the investment itself renders orthodox economic impact...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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