Tourism and economic development: Which investments produce gains for regions?

被引:46
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作者
Rosentraub, Mark S. [1 ]
Joo, Mijin [1 ]
机构
[1] Cleveland State Univ, Maxine Goodman Levin Coll Urban Affairs, Cleveland, OH 44115 USA
关键词
Tourism; Economic development; Human capital attraction; CITY;
D O I
10.1016/j.tourman.2008.11.014
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Across three decades numerous metropolitan regions have made substantial investments in different tourist amenity packages. These investments were made to either capture a portion of the growing tourism market or establish an image that attracted the human capital needed to advance economic development. This article analyzes the returns for the tourism industry and for economic development from different amenity packages and finds those related to sports and amusements generated the most significant gains for regions. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:759 / 770
页数:12
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