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21 – 30 of over 5000Small island developing states and their natural and socioeconomic environments are considered particularly susceptible to the effects of climate change. Albeit tourism is often…
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Small island developing states and their natural and socioeconomic environments are considered particularly susceptible to the effects of climate change. Albeit tourism is often regarded as the future economic driver for many such destinations, the industry has received relatively little attention in local and regional adaptation processes. This chapter specifically explores the role that donor funding has played in facilitating adaptation of tourism-related activities in Kiribati and Tuvalu and proposes ways to more effectively enhance outcomes. Theoretical and practical insights are provided, discussing how adaptations are not only shaped by awareness and motivations of local and governmental stakeholders, but how these are also informed by regional and international donors and their implementing agencies.
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Paulo Águas, Célia Veiga and Helena Reis
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the competitiveness of the European Union Member States of Southern Europe (France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain) as tourist…
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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the competitiveness of the European Union Member States of Southern Europe (France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain) as tourist destinations for European Union Member States of Central and Northern Europe (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden and the UK).
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Application of the market share analysis tool, initially developed by Faulkner, using secondary data from Eurostat – statistical office of the European communities.
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The results obtained show that France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain present distinct levels of competitiveness for the various generating countries, with changes having occurred in the period between 1999 and 2007.
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The paper offers refreshment of Faulkner's tool and an insight into tourist flows in Europe as a tool for tourism and hospitality managers.
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One problem following World War II was the large foreign currency deficits that most of the countries of the world incurred during the war years. The beginning of the peace…
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One problem following World War II was the large foreign currency deficits that most of the countries of the world incurred during the war years. The beginning of the peace offered as many financial problems as the winning of the war, and each of the many countries faced with deficits in their international balance of payments turned to a variety of export industries in the hope of reducing these deficits.
This document is only a first attempt at providing a brief description of the official publications of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. In order to repair the omissions and errors…
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This document is only a first attempt at providing a brief description of the official publications of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. In order to repair the omissions and errors in this survey, it would be necessary to send a questionnaire to the various administrations, which would enable us to fill in some considerable gaps in administrative information.
National tourism offices worldwide implement marketing strategies to influence tourists’ choices. However, there is more than meets the eye when it comes to choosing a city as a…
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National tourism offices worldwide implement marketing strategies to influence tourists’ choices. However, there is more than meets the eye when it comes to choosing a city as a tourism destination. The purpose of this paper is to answer which are the characteristics that play a key role in room occupancy.
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Diverse characteristics such as the city offer, demographics, natural amenities (e.g. number of beaches) and also politics (e.g. type of government) are combined into a decision tree model to unveil the relevance of each in determining room occupancy. The empirical experiments used data known in 2015 from 43 cities from Europe and the rest of the World to model room occupancy rate in 2016.
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While the seasonality effect plays the most significant role, other less studied features such as the type of political party prior to current government were found to have an impact in room occupancy.
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This study unveiled that center–right and right governments are generally more sensitive to promote its city as a tourism destination.
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Messieurs les invités, Chers membres, Pour la dix‐huitième fois, j'ai le plaisir et l'honneur de vous souhaiter la bienvenue à notre Congrès annuel et d'inaugurer cette…
Mesdames et Messieurs les invités, Chers membres, Il m'a rarement été possible d'ouvrir un de nos Congrès en un endroit aussi riche en traditions que celui où nous nous trouvons…
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Mesdames et Messieurs les invités, Chers membres, Il m'a rarement été possible d'ouvrir un de nos Congrès en un endroit aussi riche en traditions que celui où nous nous trouvons aujourd'hui. Rempli d'émotion, je vous souhaite la bienvenue à Athènes.
This chapter outlines the major findings of a survey on the rationale of the European Union actions for supporting tourism development and whether these undertakings can lead to a…
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This chapter outlines the major findings of a survey on the rationale of the European Union actions for supporting tourism development and whether these undertakings can lead to a distinctive tourism policymaking. According to Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and European Union documentation, the most important instrument for the implementation of policy is based on tourism-related separate actions analysis, in a way that would enable one to compare the policies at the national and international level. This study suggests that tourism becomes a field whose issues and actions are taken at the regional level. This calls for creating the necessary conditions for the development of the tourism product at the European Union level. Until now, European Union practices do not portend the formation of a distinctive policy in the tourism industry.
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