Educational tourism, a burgeoning section in China’s tourism market, has attracted great attention from both industry and researchers, however, the focus always falls on young people, the educational demands of other tourists are largely neglected. The paper, firstly does a comprehensive analysis of situation and problems of Chinese inbound, outbound and domestic education tourism markets, and ...

This paper examines the horizontal and vertical export spillovers of foreign direct investment (FDI) on China’s manufacturing domestic firms by using firm-level census data over the period of 2000–03. Based on a Heckman two-step procedure combining first differencing and instrumental variable regression techniques, we find that FDI has had a positive impact on the export value of domestic firms...

After the 2007-2008 subprime financial crisis considering bankruptcy evaluation for the banking industry becomes vital. In line of that, this study aims to analyze the bankruptcy profile of foreign versus domestic Islamic banks operating in Malaysia. This study predicted 40% and 75% bankruptcy in the subjected samples of foreign and domestic Islamic banks of Malaysia respectively. However, the ...

The present study examines the stock return volatility relationship of emerging economies from 2007 to 2013 which also includes the financial crisis of 2008 and its impact on emerging economies of the world. For the methodology, GARCH model is used to examine the impact of news coming from US which is affecting the returns of global index S&P 500 as well as the returns generated by the indices ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the prevalence of unsafe sexual behaviour, sexually transmitted infection (STI)-related knowledge, health and work-related conditions, and correlates of practising unsafe sex among domestic and foreign male workers in multinational workplaces in Jordan. DESIGN Cross-sectional behavioural assessment survey. SETTING Multinational workplaces in Jordan. PARTICIPANTS 230 ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the positive and negative effects of medical tourism on the economy, health staff and medical costs in Thailand. METHODS The financial repercussions of medical tourism were estimated from commerce ministry data, with modifications and extrapolations. Survey data on 4755 foreign and Thai outpatients in two private hospitals were used to explore how medical tourism affects ...

Tourism is one of the most important economic activities in the world: for many countries it represents the single largest product in their export basket. However, it is a product difficult to chart: “exporters” of tourism do not ship it abroad, but they welcome importers inside the country. Current research uses social accounting matrices and general equilibrium models, but the standard indust...

Tourism is one of the sectors that an important contribution to national and regional economic growth. The purpose this study assessment potential tourist attraction objects development scenarios for rainbow bridge in Sorendiweri Village. uses guidelines issued by Directorate General Forest Protection Nature Conservation while analysis with community based ecotourism (CBED) model. results showe...

Gospodarstvo Republike Hrvatske uvelike ovisi o turizmu. Aktualna kriza na globalnom turističkom tržištu izazvana pandemijom Covid-19 ukazala je značaj domaćeg tržišta za opstanak turizma i hrvatskog gospodarstva u cjelini. Stoga svrha ovoga rada utvrditi potrošačke navike domaćih turista s naglaskom obilježja putovanja, motivaciju namjere ponašanja te sukreiranje turističkog iskustva, kako bi ...