Employment and location patterns of advanced services in non-urban Canada

Spatial competition and agglomeration in the visitor attraction sector

“…Location choice decisions involve considering firm entry conditions such as market demand, costs, logistical issues, proximity to and size of customer base, distance to headquarters and distribution centres and to actual and potential competitors (Zhu & Singh, 2009). Although significant progress has been made in understanding locational issues in the service industries (Wernerheim & Sharpe, 2005), there is still a lack of coherent theoretical and empirical frameworks for analysing these (Harrington, 1995).…”

“…; This is understood as the study of spatial relationships between economic actors (Krugman, 1991(Krugman, , 1998, and an attempt to put more geography into economics (Brakman, et al, 2001). Much of the early research focussed on manufacturing industries and has analysed inter-and intra-urban locations, but there has been significant growth of research on the service sector, mostly in metropolitan areas (Wernerheim & Sharpe, 2005).…”

Distribución espacial del sector servicios en México, 1999-2009. Especialización y diversificación desde una perspectiva macrogeográfica

“…Sucede lo mismo con los servicios no comercializables (non-tradables, en inglés), los cuales se encuentran, por definición, cerca de los mercados. Así, los procesos de internacionalización de los servicios más avanzados solamente han reforzado el papel de las principales ciudades (Cuadrado-Roura, 2013a;Geppert, Gorning & Werwatz, 2008;Searle, 1998;Tanaka & Okamoto, 2008;Wernerheim & Sharpe, 2005), aunque en algunos casos se pueden observar tendencias incipientes de desconcentración hacia la periferia urbana (Hermelin, 2007).…”

A Spatial Analysis of Intensity in Tourism Accommodation: An Application for Extremadura (Spain)

“…Since the pioneering work on the subject by Marshall (1920), Ohlin (1935) and Hoover (1936), a series of investigations have proliferated, which, although they continue to have greater weight among the manufacturing industry, have also begun to gain strength in the services sector. This has allowed knowledge of the benefits that space grouping entails for this sector (Wernerheim and Sharpe 2005;Kolko 2010;Jackson and Murphy 2002;Sölvell et al 2008).The main consequence of the formation of agglomeration economies is that they generate a series of spillover effects, which can be both positive and negative with respect to tourist activities, and which must be taken into account in order to properly understand how these activities operate. Geographical spillover effects are the indirect or unintended effects that the industry of a tourist region has on the tourist flows of other nearby regions (Yang and Fik 2014; Yang and Wong 2012).Given all of the above, it is clear that the analysis of tourist activities cannot be performed in isolation without taking into account the spatial interaction between different regions or their relationship with development in a given space.…”

“…Since the pioneering work on the subject by Marshall (1920), Ohlin (1935) and Hoover (1936), a series of investigations have proliferated, which, although they continue to have greater weight among the manufacturing industry, have also begun to gain strength in the services sector. This has allowed knowledge of the benefits that space grouping entails for this sector (Wernerheim and Sharpe 2005;Kolko 2010;Jackson and Murphy 2002;Sölvell et al 2008).…”