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Improving coastal safety for international visitors to Australia. [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Health Pract (Oxf)
Koon WA, Brander RW, Lawes JC, Peden AE.
europepmc   +1 more source

Tourism non-places: Bending airports and wildscapes

open access: yesAnnals of Tourism Research, 2020
Abstract This paper takes Auge's non-place idea as point of departure to develop a deeper phenomenological understanding of two types of tourism settings: wild spaces and airports. While place and non-place are useful as comparative, polarized concepts addressing materialities and subjective experiences, asking what these particular spaces are like ...
Peter Varley, Jillian M Rickly
exaly   +3 more sources

Airports and tourism in Mozambique

Tourism Management, 2014
Abstract This paper analyses airport efficiency in Mozambique from 2000 to 2012, estimating a cost function with random and fixed effects stochastic frontier models. A robustness test is undertaken with a Bayesian stochastic frontier model. The airports are ranked according to their technical efficiency (TE). The policy implication is that Mozambique
CARLOS Pestana Barros
exaly   +2 more sources

Tourism indicators and airports' technical efficiency

Annals of Tourism Research, 2020
Abstract The Spanish airports are managed centrally by a government-owned company (AENA). The public investments made in the latest years, airports managers' inability to decide commercial policies and the lack of competition end with more than one under-used airport within an amenity distance.
Ane Elixabete Ripoll-Zarraga   +1 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Airport subsidies and domestic inbound tourism in China

open access: yesAnnals of Tourism Research, 2021
Abstract Since 2013, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has subsidized small and medium-sized airports. The key objective of this study is to empirically validate the benefits and impacts of airport subsidies in facilitating domestic tourism development. This study contributes to the aviation and tourism literature and offers important
Clement Kong Wing Chow   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Benchmarking airports and airlines to enhance Ireland’s tourism [PDF]

open access: yesBenchmarking: An International Journal
Purpose This study analyses the role of airports and airlines in the tourism sector of Ireland between 2015 and 2024, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Secondary data from public and private ...
Lázaro Florido-Benítez   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Lapland's Airports: Facilitating the Development of International Tourism in a Peripheral Region

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 2008
Using a case study on Lapland in Finland, this paper explores the way in which airports facilitate the development of international tourism in a peripheral region. The case study demonstrates how Lapland's airports act as spheres of influence for the development of tourism and support the competitive advantage of their region.
Nigel Halpern
exaly   +2 more sources

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