Ltter from . . . Chicago. Foreign visitors.

Geographic Concentration of Foreign Visitors to Japan

This paper provides the first evidence of geographic concentration of foreign visitors in Japan, using a new data on nights spent by foreign visitors in each region. Using locational Gini coefficients, I show that foreign visitors are more geographically concentrated than Japanese visitors and the level of geographical concentration vary across source countries. In addition, I employ gravity eq...

Visitor satisfaction at the museum: Italian versus foreign visitors

Trying to understand what comprises and infl uences visitor satisfaction is one of the most relevant areas of research for the tourism sector. Th e aim of this study is to analyse which factors infl uence overall satisfaction with visitors to the museum, with particular interest in national origin, feelings, and motivations. Th e research is based on 1,038 questionnaires collected from June to ...

Letter from chicago: compulsion.

About a quarter of a century ago I failed psychiatry because of my imperfect understanding of the obsessive-compulsive disorders. I had not grasped the difference between compulsions and obsessions, the professor pointed out from behind his big desk; and I had written that these disorders were rare when in fact they were exceedingly common. So I spent the summer clarifying these points in my mi...

Letter from Chicago: Winter's tales.

Letter from Chicago: Oblomov's syndrome.