Do economic crises lead tourists to closer destinations? Italy at the time of the Great Recession

Cafiso, Gianluca; Cellini, Roberto; Cuccia, Tiziana

doi:10.1111/pirs.12242

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“…However, other variables have been included to take into account the common attributes considered to be relevant determinants of tourism demand. In line with traditional gravity model, we adopt a measure of distance between origin and destination proxying geographical or physical but also intangible measures of distance, hypothesized to play a discouraging role on tourist flows (for a comprehensive overview of the role of distance in tourism flows see, for instance, Cafiso, Cellini, & Cuccia, 2018). The variable has been calculated as the distance between European countries centroids and each European NUTS 2 region centroid and measured in kilometres.…”

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European cultural heritage and tourism flows: The magnetic role of superstar World Heritage Sites

Panzera

Graaff

Groot

2021

Papers in Regional Science

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Cultural heritage is a potentially important determinant of international tourism flows. Apart from being an enrichment for both individuals and communities and an opportunity for different cultures to meet, tourism also represents a significant industry for European economies. We empirically investigate the impact of the endowment of tangible cultural heritage on tourism attractiveness of European regions. We measure material forms of cultural heritage both as regional density of locally defined monuments, cultural landscapes and museums, and as number of cultural sites listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites international programme. Using a Bayesian multilevel gravity model, we find that UNESCO cultural World Heritage Sites are associated with an increase of 6,000 (one site) to 60,000 (eight sites) international tourists from each European country to an average European region. On the other hand, regionally or nationally defined tangible forms of heritage play a more limited role as pull‐factors for international tourism. Moreover, we show that the presence of UNESCO sites reduces the distance decay effect. International tourists are willing to travel longer distance if a destination is endowed with UNESCO cultural World Heritage Sites.

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European cultural heritage and tourism flows: The magnetic role of superstar World Heritage Sites

Panzera

Graaff

Groot

2021

Papers in Regional Science

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“…This crisis, which reached Europe in 2008, has had important negative consequences on the economies of European countries. In the context of the tourism industry, the literature has analysed the impact of this crisis of in Cyprus (Boukas and Ziakas, 2013), Greece (Magoutas, Papadoudis and Sfakianakis, 2018), Italy (Cafiso, Cellini, and Cuccia, 2018) and Spain (García López, Campoy Muñoz, Cardenete Flores and Marchena Gómez, 2018).…”

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The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Mountain Tourism: An Analysis in the Central Pyrenees Region in Spain

Serrano¹,

Elboj²,

Valero³

2021

Cuad Turism

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Este artículo analiza el impacto de la crisis de 2007 en el contexto del turismo de montaña. Para alcanzar este objetivo, la investigación analiza más de 300 empresas que desarrollan su actividad en los Pirineos. A través de un análisis longitudinal que incluye el periodo 2006 (fecha previo al inicio de la crisis) y 2016 (momento en el que la recuperación económica ya está asentada) se ha analizado la evolución variables económicas y financieras. Los resultados de la investigación indican que la mayoría de las variables consideradas se han visto reducidas con respecto al año 2006. This article analyses the impact of the 2007 economic crisis on mountain tourism. In order to achieve this objective, we examined more than 300 tourist companies that focus their activity in the Central Pyrenees region in Spain. Through a longitudinal analysis that covers the period from 2006 (the year before the start of the crisis) to 2016 (the date on which the recovery is established), we analysed the evolution of the economic and financial variables. The results of the research indicate that during this period the majority of variables showed losses relative to the values in 2006.

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“…Cafiso, Cellini, and Cuccia () estimated the destination choices of travelers during the Great Recession based on geographic distances. They found the gaining importance of geographic distance between origin and tourism destination during a recessionary period and confirmed that tourists prefer closer destinations to the ones over longer distances.…”

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Diversifying visitor demand and its impact on Las Vegas's tourism industry during recovery from the Great Recession

Kwon

Lim

Kim

2020

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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This paper analyses the transitionary economic impact of the post-recession recovery on the tourism industry in Las Vegas. The signs of early recovery in this study are measured by the increasing household income in Southern California (SCA), the most important origin of visitors to Las Vegas. To estimate the multiplier effects of the Las Vegas tourism industry into its neighbouring regions, we employed a "social accounting matrix" within a multi-regional inputoutput model. Our test reveals that intra-industry diversification of the tourism industry in Las Vegas is driven by the changing visitor demand of middle-income classes from SCA. Through the multiplier effects of Las Vegas's tourism industry, Northern California gets the largest ripple effects, followed by Southern California. Findings from this study contribute to further develop effective strategies for ongoing diversification efforts of Las Vegas's tourism industry.Proposed approaches are also applicable to identify the major source of changing demand for tourism activities and to estimate the potential effects through interregional industry linkages. K E Y W O R D S diversification, MRIO, tourism industry, transitionary economic impact

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Do economic crises lead tourists to closer destinations? Italy at the time of the Great Recession

Cited by 27 publications

References 50 publications

European cultural heritage and tourism flows: The magnetic role of superstar World Heritage Sites

European cultural heritage and tourism flows: The magnetic role of superstar World Heritage Sites

The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Mountain Tourism: An Analysis in the Central Pyrenees Region in Spain

Diversifying visitor demand and its impact on Las Vegas's tourism industry during recovery from the Great Recession

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