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on Tourism Economics |
| By: | Cruz, Ana Rita; Pinto, Hugo |
| Abstract: | The urban tourism is a segment with a relevant expansion, assuming an important role in the revitalization and in the promotion of economic development in cities. The following communication tries to explore some crucial issues in the analysis of the urban dimension and its interconnections with the tourism activities. The evolution of growth urban patterns, the representations and concept of city and models of spatial development are synthetically presented. Urban tourism is presented and discussed, the relations with the tourism system and the affirmation of city as a tourism product. The ideas presented in the communication stress the interest of urban tourism to city planning as a set of economic activities capable of promoting the economic development. The communication also underlines the pertinence in studying these phenomena using transdisciplinary theoretical and methodological frameworks that mix contributes from Economics to Sociology, capturing in a richer way the diversity of tourism in urban areas. |
| Keywords: | City; Urban Tourism; Urban Growth; Tourism System; Tourism Product |
| JEL: | P25 L83 |
| Date: | 2008–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:13477&r=tur |
| By: | Jacobo Campo |
| Abstract: | Este documento estudia los efectos sobre el bienestar económico de cambios en la estructura del sector turismo en un país pequeño y abierto al comercio como es el caso de Colombia. Apoyado en un modelo básico de equilibrio general de comercio internacional teórico desarrollado por Dixit and Norman (1980) y extendido por Porto (2004). Se analizan con este modelo los efectos de aumentos en la demanda de turismo doméstico. Los resultados teóricos muestran que un aumento de la demanda de turismo doméstico se genera por un aumento relativo en la dotación efectiva de atracciones turísticas del país, y este aumento da lugar a efectos positivos sobre el bienestar doméstico, sobre el precio de los bienes turísticos domésticos no transables, y efectos negativos sobre el bienestar del resto del mundo.**************** This document studies the effects on the economic welfare of changes in the structure of the sector tourism in a small open economy for the trade since it is the case of Colombia; supported on a basic model of general equilibrium of international trade, developed by Dixit and Norman (1980) and extended by Porto (2004). With this model are analyzed the effects of increases in the demand of domestic tourism. The theoretical results show that an increase of the demand of domestic tourism is generated by a relative increase in the effective endowment of tourist attractions of the country, and this increase gives place to positive effects on the domestic welfare, on the price of the tourist domestic goods non-tradable, and negative effects on the welfare of the rest of the world. |
| Date: | 2009–02–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:col:000092:005266&r=tur |
| By: | Neri, Marcelo; Soares, Wagner |
| Abstract: | This study evaluates the social impacts of the project PRODETUR in Porto Seguro and Bahia. Among the analyzed channels, we have focused on the impact on variables related to sewering (access to piped water, sewer and garbage collection), besides some socio-economic ones (occupation, contribution to social security, income and poverty). In addition, we analyzed the impact on the distribution of costs and benefits between the immigrant and native population. Using the methodology of differences-in-differences to compare areas affected and non–affected by the program, we measured the “true†impact of the program using the 1991 and 2000 Census. The results suggest a relative advance in Porto Seguro in what concerns employment, formality, income and poverty reduction, with this benefits being uniformly distributed between immigrant and native population. On the other hand, we have observed a relative worsening in the sanitary situation, what will lead to future problems whose cost will be beard mainly by the natives, among which we observe a relative worse access to water, sewer and garbage collection. Therefore, we conclude that, in order to provide tourism in a sustainable way, the municipality of Porto Seguro requires a better preservation of its natural capital |
| Date: | 2008–12–29 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fgv:epgewp:688&r=tur |
| By: | Massimo Alfonso Russo; Roberto Gismondi |
| Date: | 2008–10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ufg:qdsems:17-2008&r=tur |
| By: | Massimo Alfonso Russo; Roberto Gismondi; Patrizia Perini |
| Abstract: | Il lavoro propone una raccolta organica di dati statistici relativi agli spostamenti internazionali di viaggiatori da e verso stati europei e, in particolare, stati aderenti all'Unione Europea. Sulla base della sistematizzazione concettuale delle informazioni attualmente disponibili da varie fonti, si è tentato di quantificare, in chiave comparativa, i livelli di tali spostamenti e le variazioni intercorse negli ultimi anni. In generale, gli stati entrati nell'Unione più recentemente presentano trend di visitatori in entrata superiori a quelli degli stati dell'Unione più anziani. |
| Date: | 2008–10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ufg:qdsems:16-2008&r=tur |