This paper focuses on User-Generated (UG) photos in the understudied Arab Muslim World. Over four million public photos on Flickr.com represent Arab countries‟ UG presence, with Egypt and Palestine the top countries for the respective keywords of travel and Muslim. The findings also reveal varied United Arab Emirates‟ presence, with ten times more Dubai photos than the next highest emirate Abu ...

This paper proposes an approach to economic assessment of the impact on tourist flows of the earthquake that hit the Umbria region in Central Italy on September 26, 1997. Local arrivals in Assisi fell drastically the month following the main shock, compared to the same month of the previous year. The event study methodology, frequently applied in finance, is employed to evaluate the statistical...

Global tourism suffered its worst year in 2020 due to the widespread of COVID-19, and industry-related professionals are looking for efficient measures help recover. Government efficiency was mentioned as an important factor inbound tourism; however, mitigating effect on performance context natural disasters has not been empirically researched. This study attempts address gap through analysis a...

The goal of the research was to construct a model for calculating Tourism Development Index (TDI) at local level. TDI is based on ten indicators: total number beds, beds per 100 residents, in hotels and similar establishments, establishments tourist arrivals, arrivals capita, overnight stays, stays employed tourism hospitality share employment. Based TDI, 556 cities/towns municipalities were ca...

Tourism has established itself as an instrument that supports the sustainable development of rural destinations and has both, negative and positive effects. The annual instability of the flow of visitors, known as tourist seasonality, contributes to the intensification of some of these negative effects. In this work, we perform an analysis on the evolution of the seasonality intensity during th...