There is an economic natural resource curse as well as a political natural resource curse. The economic literature identifies certain characteristics of countries that are likely to fall victims to the former curse. ent literature on the y to explore the question In this essay we draw on these characteristics, rec political natural resource curse and Cuba’s histor of how likely is Cuba to fall...

Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal b Faculdade de Economia e Gestão, Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Rua Augusto Rosa, 24, 4000-098 Porto, Portugal c Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portuga...

Modeling and forecasting techniques of the tourist arrivals are many and diverse. Th ere is no unique model that exactly outperforms the other models in every situation. Actually a few studies have realized modeling and forecasting the tourist arrivals to Turkey and these studies have not focused on the total tourist arrivals. Th ese studies have focused on the tourist arrivals to Turkey countr...

The purpose of this study is to find out whether smart tourism technologies have an influence on tourist loyalty, memorable experiences stratification has and technologies, experiences, together affect loyalty tourist. methods used in are descriptive types research quantitative approaches. data collection technique distribute questionnaires 100 respondents. analysis multiple regression analysis...

Anders Ryd California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 Alberto Crescente, Alvise Dorigo, Fulvio Galeazzi, Mauro Morandin, Roberto Stroili, Gionni Tiozzo, Gabriele Vedovato INFN Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy Francesco Safai Tehrani INFN Rome, I-00185 Rome, Italy Teela Pulliam Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 Peter Elmer Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 Antonio Cese...

Haze pollution has worsened and has received close attention by news agencies in the past two years. This type of environmental pollution might have a great effect on tourism image and the entire tourism industry of a destination. This study aimed to reveal the potential impacts of haze pollution on the tourism industry. Based on a case study in Beijing using questionnaires for potential touris...

115 There is a good deal of evidence showing that personality questionnaires are fakeable. Impressive evidence was first given by Viswesvaran and Ones (1999), but also since then, in particular by Birkeland, Manson, Kisamore, Brannick, and Smith (2006), Deller, Ones, Viswesvaran, and Dilchert (2006), and Morgeson, Campion, Dipboye, Hollenbeck, Murphy, and Schmitt (2007a). In this paper, the phe...

Location-based service information, provided by social networks, provides new data sources and perspectives to research tourism activities, especially in highly populated mega-cities. Based on three years (2012–2014) of approximately 340,000 check-in records collected from Sina micro-blog at 86 tourist attractions in Shenzhen, a first-tier city in southern China, we conducted a comprehensive st...

This paper examines a newly created approach to exploring travel motivations, the Travel Career Patterns (TCP) model. Through an analysis of the TCP model, the authors advance travel motivation theory by making three contributions: a refinement of the definition of travel experience; the use and evaluation of essays as a qualitative tool for interpreting travel motives; and an extension of the ...

Tourist attraction Taman Ayun is a tourist place on the island of Bali which located in village Ayun, District Abiansemal, Badung, Province. The present form long tail macaques, Pala Forest, and Pura Bukit Sari as its appeal. number tourists who visited Travel Attractions from time to experienced an increase after falling dramatically 2012, amounting 54 637 people, but still quite slow when com...