TOURISM IN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

Tourism and Regional Income Inequality: Evidence from China

This study examines the role of tourism development in reducing regional income inequality in China. First, the theoretical foundation for how tourism affects regional income inequality is discussed. Second, based on the conditional convergence framework, this study proposes a spatiotemporal autoregressive model to capture spatial and temporal dependence as well as spatial heterogeneity. Touris...

Empirical Evidence of Regional Population Concentration in Europe , 1870 – 2000

Although several studies have analysed the evolution of European population, as a global aggregate (Bairoch et al., 1988; Champion, 1993; Noin and Woods, 1993), very few have considered the regional distribution of population. Despite some noticeable contributions (e.g. Festy, 1979; Coale, 1986; Watkins, 1991), to date not much has been done in the way of conducting a detailed study of populati...

National and Regional Tourism Planning

Health Tourism Development Strategies in Ardabil

Introduction: Health tourism industry is growing in border provinces of the country, especially in the areas where tourists feel more comfortable as a result of distance from stressful urban life. This research was done to promote Health Tourism Industry in Ardabil. Methods: This is an analytic study. The data were gathered by means of library technique f...

Structural breaks, tourism development, and economic growth: Evidence from Taiwan

Our paper differs from previous studies by examining the issue of whether regime changes have broken down the stability of the long-run relationships between tourism development and real GDP in Taiwan for the 1959–2003 period. We empirically investigate the co-movements and the causal relationships among real GDP, tourism development, and the real exchange rate in a multivariate model. We use t...