Tourism and Environmental Degradation in Sochi, Russia

Lukashina, Nina S.; Amirkhanov, Marat M.; Anisimov, Valerii I.; Trunev, Alexander

doi:10.1016/0160-7383(95)00086-0

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“…The over-exploitation of public resources involved in tourism activity to the point of congestion can reduce the value of a destination (Lukashina et al 1996) and threaten the long-term sustainability of tourism-related economic activity (Hernández-Martín et al 2015).…”

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“…The overexploitation of public resources involved in tourism activity to the point of congestion can reduce the value of a destination (Lukashina et al 1996) and threaten the long-term sustainability of tourism-related economic activity (Hernández-Martín, Álvarez-Albelo, and N. Padrón-Fumero 2015). One way to tackle congestion is to reduce visitor numbers with the introduction of tourism taxes (so visitors can internalize the congestion externality).…”

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The Impact of Accommodation Taxes on Outbound Travel Demand from the United Kingdom to European Destinations

Heffer-Flaata

Voltes-Dorta

Suau-Sánchez

2020

Journal of Travel Research

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Despite the progressive introduction of accommodation taxes in many European cities, there is no consensus in the literature as to whether they have positive or negative effects. This may be related to the lack of estimates of the elasticity of visitor demand to accommodation taxes. To fill this gap, we carry out two panel-data regressions using a data set of airline travelers from UK cities to Spanish, French, and Italian destinations between 2012 and 2018. The results from the two-stage least squares regressions indicate that UK international travelers are indeed sensitive to hotel taxes. However, the impact of these taxes differs between peak and off-peak periods and across destination countries, with French destinations showing the most negative effect on visitor flows. The analysis of tax elasticities at a destination level also reveals the lack of a significant negative impact on visitor flows to major cities like Venice or Barcelona.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The Impact of Accommodation Taxes on Outbound Travel Demand from the United Kingdom to European Destinations

Heffer-Flaata

Voltes-Dorta

Suau-Sánchez

2020

Journal of Travel Research

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“…The use of public resources (such as natural parks, lakes or beaches) in the provision of tourist services can be linked to over-exploitation and congestion (Hillery, Nancarrow, Griffin & Syme, 2001), which threaten the destinations' natural environment and, in a sort of vicious cycle, can also reduce the value that visitors place on the natural resources (Lukashina, Amirkhanov, Anisimov & Trunev, 1996). Thus, environmental degradation can also threaten the long-term sustainability of economic activity in places that are highly dependent on tourism (Hernández-Martín et al, 2015).…”

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The economic impact of the tourism moratoria in the Canary Islands 2003–2017

Inchausti-Sintes

Voltes-Dorta

2019

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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In the early 2000s, the Parliament of the Canary Islands passed a series of tourism moratoria to restrict the growth in tourism supply. Even though the effects of moratoria have been covered in the literature, there is little quantitative evidence about their economic impact on the destinations, particularly in relation to the goal of increasing the quality of the accommodation supply. In order to fill this gap, this paper employs both regression and computable general equilibrium (CGE) methods to estimate the economic impact of the increased 5-star capacity acquired by the Canary Islands during the three moratoria periods between 2003 and 2017. The regression results show that the successive moratoria had a significant impact on the 5-star hotel supply in the Islands, while the CGE model translates the extra capacity into a positive impact on social welfare, with output increases in the sectors that complement tourism activity.

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“…9 The utilization of the natural resource can also decrease the environmental value perceived by visitors. This is the case, for example, of reserve areas that suffer from high daily visitor numbers, causing traffic congestion or littering, and the noise levels in highly congested tourist areas, which can cause serious damage to the local fauna or environmental values (Lukashina et al, 1996). Thus, the natural resource evolves according to the following equation:…”

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Welfare and Environmental Degradation in a Tourism-Based Economy

Hernández

León

2013

Tourism Economics

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This paper presents an endogenous growth model for a tourism economy that takes into account the particular interrelationships between natural and physical capital, the production of tourist services and environmental degradation. The model considers both infrastructure and environmental attributes as production factors, characterized by a predator–prey relationship arising from the negative influence of the development of physical infrastructure on the natural capital. A general condition for economic sustainability is derived from the model analysis. In addition, the transitional dynamics obtained by using specific functional forms depict the empirically observed tourist life cycle and extend the optimal paths obtained from the classical Ramsey model to the context of tourism-based economies strongly dependent on fragile environmental resources.

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Tourism and Environmental Degradation in Sochi, Russia

Cited by 32 publications

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The Impact of Accommodation Taxes on Outbound Travel Demand from the United Kingdom to European Destinations

The Impact of Accommodation Taxes on Outbound Travel Demand from the United Kingdom to European Destinations

The economic impact of the tourism moratoria in the Canary Islands 2003–2017

Welfare and Environmental Degradation in a Tourism-Based Economy

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