Domestic Tourism and Regional Inequality in Brazil

Tourism and Regional Income Inequality: Evidence from China

This study examines the role of tourism development in reducing regional income inequality in China. First, the theoretical foundation for how tourism affects regional income inequality is discussed. Second, based on the conditional convergence framework, this study proposes a spatiotemporal autoregressive model to capture spatial and temporal dependence as well as spatial heterogeneity. Touris...

Children’s Environment in Brazil: From Domestic (Indoor) to Regional Threats

In the globalized world of the 21st century, most of the child population has been stimulated by many opportunities and challenges, but they have also found huge barriers in relation to their health, development and well-being in the form of environmental threats [1]. According to international data, in 2015, approximately 5.9 million children died under age five, in an estimated rate of 16,000...

In Economics and Social Sciences Working Papers Series Trade and Regional Inequality Trade and Regional Inequality * Trade and Regional Inequality

This paper examines the relationship between openness and within-country regional inequality across 28 countries over the period 1975-2005, paying special attention to whether increases in global trade affect the developed and developing world differently. Using a combination of static and dynamic panel data analysis, it is found that while increases in trade per se do not lead to greater terri...

Modelling and Forecasting Australian Domestic Tourism

In this paper, we model and forecast Australian domestic tourism demand. We use a regression framework to estimate important economic relationships for domestic tourism demand. We also identify the impact of world events such as the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2002 Bali bombings on Australian domestic tourism. To explore the time series nature of the data, we use innovation state space models ...

National and Regional Tourism Planning