a r t i c l e i n f o A credible socioeconomic and environmental cost–benefit tool for tourism products has been lacking, despite many significant potential values, the huge impact of tourism products worldwide, and the increasingly successful application of such tools in other sectors. This paper describes development and trial of a prototype tool for holiday products that could determine the ...

BACKGROUND Medical tourism, the practice of persons intentionally travelling across international boundaries to access medical care, has drawn increasing attention from researchers, particularly in relation to potential ethical concerns of this practice. Researchers have expressed concern for potential negative impacts to individual safety, public health within both countries of origin for medi...

As tourism is becoming one of the most important sources of economic growth at the local level, it is crucial to identify and assess the relevant determinants of tourism flows. This paper investigates this issue by carrying out an econometric analysis of tourism flows for the 107 Italian provinces based on the origin-destination (OD) spatial interaction models, which fully account for the spati...

Tourism is becoming an important sector with a great impact on economic development. Tourists form a heterogeneous group of visitors with significantly different spending patterns. This paper addresses the economic importance of a particular class of tourists, viz. those visiting friends and relatives (VFR). After a review of the literature, this paper offers an empirical case study of VFR tour...

After a commercial whaling moratorium was enacted in 1986, whale watching became one of the fastest growing tourism industries worldwide. As whaling is regarded as an activity that is incompatible with whale watching, the possible resumption of commercial whaling has caused an urgent need to investigate the potential negative effects of whaling on the whale-watching industry. We examine the pot...

Peter Möller (2016), Young adults in rural tourism areas. Örebro Studies in Human Geography 10. This thesis examines how tourism affects conditions for young adults in rural areas. Such a study lies at the intersection of research about tourism impacts, adult transition, and rural areas. The aim is to examine how largescale tourism affects the opportunities for young adults living in rural area...

Economic impact analysis (EIA) of outdoor recreation can provide critical social information concerning the utilization of natural resources. Outdoor recreation and other non-consumptive uses of resources are viewed as environmentally friendly alternatives to extractive-type industries. While outdoor recreation can be an appropriate use of resources, it generates both beneficial and adverse soc...

The rural, a diminishing global resource, provides us with an increasingly important environment for tourism. On the supply side, its impacts, both positive and negative, are well documented, widely debated and the subjects of an increasing literature. Often overlooked, however, are the benefits to rural visitors, the welfare effects of improved mental and physical well-being that are the widel...

Adventure tourism is a substantial industry sector which to date has received relatively little research attention. Most relevant research is from outdoor recreation. The major research themes are: psychological, including thrills, conflicts and norms; safety, including injuries, illnesses and insurance; impacts, whether ecological, social or economic; and participation and management. There ha...