We wish to acknowledge the World Bank and the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) for the use of household survey data. Ms. Betty Msimuko from the Zambia Wildlife Authority provided useful information related to community-based natural resource management and facilitated field site visits in game management areas. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Swedish Inter...

Abstract Tourism is a significant economic activity for developing any national economy and the world as well. Revenues generated through tourism services affect GDP directly stimulate growth. The revenues are important economies, i.e. foreign exchange inflow, tourist export. However, many factors impact on volume of arrivals, thus both inflows GDP. Government measures taken various reasons tha...

Issues in the macro-environment are affecting the historic relationships that have existed between hospitals and their medical staffs over the last half century. Rising healthcare costs, deteriorating relationships, unexplained variations in clinical outcomes, transparency in healthcare outcomes, medical tourism, competition between hospitals and physicians, and reluctance by hospitals and phys...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected all economic processes as well the tourism industry and service exports. COVID-19 affects negatively not only in production manufacturing industry, but also caused important problems sector. The paper aims to determine effects of revenues, international tourist arrivals on exports industry. In line with results, there is a long-term relationship amon...

Tourism based on interactions with wildlife is increasing in popularity across the world. A conceptual framework is presented which begins to classify the major components of wildlife tourism/recreation and indicates the roles of and the relationship between these components. It is suggested that the values of conservation, animal welfare, visitor satisfaction, and pro"tability are often in con...

This departmental paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tourism in Asia Pacific region, Latin America, and Caribbean countries. Many dependent economies these regions, including small states Caribbean, entered with limited fiscal space, inadequate external buffers, foreign exchange revenues extremely concentrated tourism. The empirical analysis leverages an augmented gravity model t...

This study deals with the relationship between tourism revenues and economic growth in Turkey over period 2003Q1-2019Q3 within framework of Fourier approach. The results ADF unit root test show that two variables are I(1). Upon this, ADL Hidden cointegration tests applied to investigate existence long-term among aforementioned variables. According tests, there is a unidirectional running from r...

This study aims to test the validity of tourism-led growth hypothesis. For this purpose, ten countries with highest tourism income (USA, China, Australia, France, Italy, England, Spain, Germany, Japan, Thailand) are included in analysis covering period 1995-2018. Pedroni cointegration, panel Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS) and Fully Modified (FMOLS) methods utilized by using economic growt...

The benefits of Marine Managed Areas (MMAs) (i) biodiversity conservation; (ii) protection of habitats attractive to tourism; (iii) increased productivity of fisheries; (iv) increased knowledge of marine science; (v) refuge for intensely exploited fish and invertebrate species, and (vi) protection of cultural diversity e.g. sacred places, wrecks and lighthouses. The study has evaluated the cost...