Tourism as an Economic Develpment Tool

Combining Curriculum with Different Types of Tourism as an Educational Tool: A Case Study

Based on the theoretical foundation of the study, it was hypothesized that the combination of curriculum with different types of tourism can help with the attainment of educational goals in different areas. A sample of 108 students and professors in three fields of Curriculum Planning, Educational Administration, and Tourism Management at Allameh Tabataba’i University provided the needed data. ...

Answering Questions About Tourism: A Growing Economic Development Tool

Tourism and Economic Growth

Tourism as a Long-run Economic Growth Factor: an Empirical Investigation for Greece Using Causality Analysis

This paper examines empirically the tourism impact on the long-run economic growth of Greece by using the causality analysis among real gross domestic product, real effective exchange rate and international tourism earnings. A multivariate autoregressive VAR model is applied for the examined period 1960:Ι – 2000:IV. The results of cointegration analysis suggested that there is one cointegrated ...

Developing an informational tool for ethical engagement in medical tourism

BACKGROUND Medical tourism, the practice of persons intentionally travelling across international boundaries to access medical care, has drawn increasing attention from researchers, particularly in relation to potential ethical concerns of this practice. Researchers have expressed concern for potential negative impacts to individual safety, public health within both countries of origin for medi...

The potential-method--an economic evaluation tool.

INTRODUCTION Measuring the effect of safety and health on production is a difficult value to gauge. METHOD This article introduces the Potential, which is an instrument for economic analysis that incorporates different changes in conditions. RESULTS While there are a number of problems associated with methods to determine these calculations, this method is a good indicator of the effects of...