This article estimates a count-data model on the flight behaviour of Austrian holiday-makers based information from large representative quarterly survey spanning years 2014–2016. On average, number holiday flights ranges between 0.6 and 1.2 per year for residents in least populated region capital, respectively. Results estimations reveal that is highest persons with tertiary degrees, young age...

This paper argues that tourism will become a major activity in a modern welfare state, which will have serious consequences for environmental sustainability. This issue calls for an assessment of the pros and cons of the ecological efficiency of tourism. We propose an overall efficiency indicator that comprises both a sustainable tourism index and an economic efficiency index. Based on a data s...

This paper poses three questions: (1) Does mortality from natural causes spike around Christmas and New Year? (2) If so, does this spike exist for all major disease groups or only specialized groups? (3) If twin holiday spikes exist, need this imply that Christmas and New Year are risk factors for death? To answer these questions, we used all official U.S. death certificates, 1979-2004 (n = 57,...

BACKGROUND School closure is often considered as an option to mitigate influenza epidemics because of its potential to reduce transmission in children and then in the community. The policy is still however highly debated because of controversial evidence. Moreover, the specific mechanisms leading to mitigation are not clearly identified. METHODS We introduced a stochastic spatial age-specific...