This article challenges claims that liberalising state regulated markets in developing countries may induce lasting economic development. The analysis of the rise of tourism in Egypt during the last three decades suggests that the effects of liberalisation and structural adjustment are constrained by the neo-patrimonial character of the Egyptian political system. Since the decline of oil rent r...

Tourism is becoming an important sector with a great impact on economic development. Tourists form a heterogeneous group of visitors with significantly different spending patterns. This paper addresses the economic importance of a particular class of tourists, viz. those visiting friends and relatives (VFR). After a review of the literature, this paper offers an empirical case study of VFR tour...

The internet revolution and advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have dramatically changed how citizens and business interact with their government. Almost all the government website supply the local tourism information since the tourism is becoming increasingly important for local economic development. This paper is an attempt to compare the current development of the e-g...

—This study examined the relationship between socio-economic and demographic attributes of local residents and their attitudes toward tourism in Washington, NC, a small community where tourism is in its development stage. Residents’ attitudes toward tourism were measured by adapting 20 items from the Tourism Impact Attitude Scale developed by Lankford and Howard (1994). Factor analysis resulted...

Background:Environment destroyed and reduce the living place especially in urban place  become an important mater these days ,improving environment need a lot of think together like economic, realigns and environment  changes ,urban tourism is one of the most  important and complicate behavior in town. Objective: In researchers look tourism have a large effect on economic, realign and social be...

Background:Environment destroyed and reduce the living place especially in urban place  become an important mater these days ,improving environment need a lot of think together like economic, realigns and environment  changes ,urban tourism is one of the most  important and complicate behavior in town. Objective: In researchers look tourism have a large effect on economic, realign and social be...

Over the last few decades several countries have looked towards tourism as a means of promoting development and economic growth. Tourism has grown to become the world’s second largest industry, directly accounting for 3.8 percent of global GDP in 2005 according to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC). Experiences from various countries have shown that tourism can have significant effects...

The purpose of this paper is to explore residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts and how they affect attitudes towards local tourism policies. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of community attachment and employment sector of residents. This study presents the results of a quantitative survey among residing families of a small mountain community located in the North-East of Italy. T...

UDC: 338.48-44(1-21)(680) Already an enormous global industry, tourism seems to offer the quickest route to economic and social development of emerging nations. This has been no different for South Africa given the growing interest of international travellers to visit the country and its cities. Tourism is of significant importance to the South African economy as it contributes almost 7.4% to G...

Tourism industry has become one of the biggest and dynamic industries in the world, giving a great impetus to the economic development. However, its vulnerability and the crisis management have been the momentous problem. The findings of researches and practices have shown that tourism crisis will possibly take place due to the destruction of system balance, which is similar to the ecological c...