Tourist destinations are often inaccessible due to mobility problems. The purpose of this paper is to identify the mobility problems of tourist destinations in remote areas of natural value. The research was carried out in the following two tourist destinations with the above-mentioned values:...

The tourism area life cycle is used to map the changes within the tourism destination on a temporal basis. The paper reviews the literature on the tourism area life cycle from 2003-2020. Articles appearing in journals having a cite score of 1.0 or higher were considered for the review process....

This study employs a contingent valuation survey to elicit willingness-to-pay (WTP) from Canadian recreational anglers to fish on their preferred watersheds if managers of these watersheds choose to adopt novel environmental DNA (eDNA) toolkits. The survey gathered responses from 999 Canadian...

Using tracking technologies to measure revealed preferences can help detect locations with potential for further expansion or with risks of tourism overgrowth and consequential externalities. Understanding consumer behavior in spatio-temporal dimensions can reveal what contextual factors...

The objective of this research paper is to identify and appraise the factors determining impacts of nature tourism in a tourist destination. The villages of Bhilangana Valley in Garhwal Himalayas have been selected for this study. The paper enumerates the physical, economic and social-cultural...

Financial advisors need to assess their clients’ risk profile to properly manage their portfolio risk and comply with regulatory provisions. Assessing an investor’s financial risk tolerance (FRT) is a challenge in the advisory process and none of the existing measures can be easily employed...

Operational risk is a substantial source of risk for US banks. Improving the performance of operational risk models allows banks’ management to make more informed risk decisions by better matching economic capital and risk appetite, and allows regulators to enhance their understanding of...

The concept of open innovations has enjoyed significant popularity among both researchers and management practitioners for two decades, as evidenced by numerous research papers and case studies. The progressive development of the concept also applies to the tourism industry, which, faced with...

Cultural heritage tourism is widely acknowledged as one of the main attractions of tourism and the role of various stakeholders in the conservation and sustainable development of these irreplaceable destinations is widely discussed. However, little attention has been paid to the investigation of...

Creating websites and social media marketing is an integral part of business activities in companies. The Building and managing the brand is the most complex task in the contemporary market and tourism business. Strategic brand management focuses on a brand program that contains a plan for...

This study investigates the association between uncertain media tone and risk-taking measures that capture CEO risk-taking incentives, corporate investment, and financial policies. The study predicts that CEOs who attract greater uncertain media tone have more risk-taking incentives. We find a...

The branding of places is now prevalent and the focus in the tourism marketing literature is on places as destinations. Branding destinations with history, heritage and cultural attractions will shape the perceptions of tourists. Such perceptions may influence their intentions, e.g., revisit...

In this paper we consider the operations of a non-financial corporation and present a novel risk-management framework that supports the joint optimization of the firm's operational and financial decisions. Specifically, we study the problem of maximizing the firm's operating profits when these...

This paper aims to evaluate the external validity of context on food choices by the existence of some mis-projection of future consumer decisions. Two studies are presented in a laboratory and in more realistic environments, such as a recreated experimental supermarket. A between-subject...

We estimate the historical effects of climate change on real estate prices in Southwestern Colorado, an area strongly influenced by outdoor recreation-based tourism, and we use these estimates to make projections for future house prices in the region based on a business-as-usual carbon dioxide...

This report summarizes the outcome of two roundtables held with expert legal scholars on the need for a unified European copyright. Issues discussed include various models for a unitary copyright title and fundamental rights aspects.The Roundtables are part of a strand of the Recreating Europe...

This article introduces a multinomial logit model that uses ancillary information to control for uncertainty in both the observed choices made by respondents, and in the attributes of a respondent's choice set. Simulated data are used to compare the performance of this estimator versus simpler...

We estimate the value of water quality improvements for recreational activities on and near the Brandywine Creek in Delaware. We divide water-based recreational activities into two groups: water-contact and non-water-contact. We then consider the behavioral change of the recreationists in each...

A parsimonious extension of a well-known portfolio credit-risk model allows us to study a salient stylized fact - abrupt switches between high- and low-loss phases - from a risk-management perspective. As uncertainty about phase switches increases, expected losses decouple from unexpected...

Ethiopia holds all the necessary ingredients for tourism development, given the multitude and uniqueness of attractions. Among them stands Lake Tana, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve which is an extremely important resource for Ethiopia, locking up half of its freshwater. The target of the current...

The development of tourism is associated with numerous risks that have a direct and indirect impact on the realization of tourist and recreational potential. In recent years, in addition to internal risks, the importance of external environmental risks (geopolitical and epidemiological) has...

Operational risk events have severely impacted the development of third-party payment (TPP) platforms, and have even led to a discussion on the operational risk capital charge settlement by relevant international regulators. However, prior studies have mostly focused on qualitative mechanism...

An extensive literature demonstrates that hard dimensions contribute to the growth of tourism destinations. To remain competitive, these resources are significantly important for selecting a tourism location and they also serve as a key attraction for travelers. Therefore, this study is an...