Essays about: "tourism policy"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 55 essays containing the words tourism policy.

  1. 21. Backpacker Tourism and Local Community Development: An Analysis of Hostels as Drivers of Poverty Reduction in Sri Lanka

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Gayani Siriwardena; [2019]
    Keywords : Backpacker tourism; Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice; Hostels; Livelihoods; Local communities; Networks; Poverty reduction; Sri Lanka; Tourism industry policy framework; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis is an attempt to understand if hostels, being an essential component of the infrastructural support for backpacker tourism have been instrumental in lifting up local communities in light of socio-economic development. The analysis strives to explore not only the contours of change in the community level but also the changes in the institutions and structures within which the tourism industry operates to understand how the hostel communities create their own structures through exercising power, which is a manifestation of how capitals are accumulated and transformed. READ MORE

  3. 22. Can tourism Seal the deal? : an explorative study on Seal tourism in Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Ebba Alteg; [2019]
    Keywords : benefits; seals; survey; wildlife tourism; wildlife management;

    Abstract : The increased seal populations in the Swedish coastal areas have resulted in increased damages for fishing companies with associated costs. The negative aspect of seals has been quantified (costs for small-scale fishers) but both negative and positive aspects of natural resources must be considered for politicians to make efficient policy decisions. READ MORE

  4. 23. Observing the unobservable? : Segmentation of tourism expenditure in Venice usingunobservable heterogeneity to find latent classes

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Nationalekonomi

    Author : Magdalena Lundberg; [2018]
    Keywords : unobserved heterogeneity; fixed mixture model; tourism expenditure; expenditure segmentation; market segmentation; Venice tourism;

    Abstract : Consumer segmentation based on expenditure are usually done by using observedcharacteristics, such as age and income. This thesis highlights the problem with negativeexternalities which Venice suffers from, due to mass tourism. READ MORE

  5. 24. The Distorted Communication of a City

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

    Author : Mattias Hallén; [2018]
    Keywords : Place branding; city branding; value construction; value destruction; entrepreneurialism; discursive closure; justification logics; strategic communication; post-industrial city; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study argues that there is a problem in previous literature regarding theunderstanding of value in city brand communication. Value construction has been overemphasized, at the expenses of value destruction, which is problematic because there is a mutual relationship between value construction and destruction. READ MORE

  6. 25. The willingness to pay extra for environmental certificated hotels in Stockholm : a survey based master’s thesis about consumers driving characteristics towards hotels’ green work

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Sophie Nyström; [2017]
    Keywords : Willingness To Pay; Cragg’s Tobit; Contingency Valuation; Environment; Hotels; Sweden; Environmental Impacts;

    Abstract : The year 2017 has been designated “the international year of sustainable tourism for development” by the United Nations 70th General Assembly [General Assembly 2016]. Hotels have the potential to decrease the environmental impacts of their guests in their facilities. READ MORE