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ABSTRACTIn this paper we estimate the economic impact of cruise tourism with an application to the Port of Cartagena, Spain. As a novelty, we build on a newly available regional input–output (IO) framework. This allows us to compute the indirect and induced effects of cruise ship visits, which adds to the direct effects obtained from survey data. Results identify the total impact in terms of employment, wages, gross operating surplus and value added. Methodologically, the use of regional IO tables improves the accuracy of previous methodologies building on country IO Tables. Results of the investigation provide important policy recommendations to the public and private stakeholders in order to manage this rising activity.

ABSTRACTTourism based on cultural issues is growing fast in recent years. This type of tourism promotes the diversification of demand and supply at destinations, while keeping and valuing the local culture. Improving our knowledge on cultural tourism could help to foster the sustainability of destinations. Despite efforts devoted to define the “cultural tourist”, still little is known about her/his particular behaviour. The objective of this paper is twofold. First, identifying the profile of cultural tourists versus visitors not pursuing any cultural activity. Second, and building on econometric modelling, comparing the behaviour of these two groups in terms of factors influencing expenditure and trip satisfaction. All these findings are putted in context regarding the literature on tourism sustainability.

After January 25th 2011 Egypt witnessed political, economic and social instability leading to drastic consequences in the hospitality and tourism industry. Thus unstable situation reflected on the deteriorated occupancy percentages that led to declined profit margins, higher employee layoffs and degraded quality of product and services. The objectives of this research is to examine how the Egyptian hospitality properties manage this dilemma through their marketing practices, and to propose a new marketing mix model that adds new layers of depth to the traditional marketing mix model. A methodological framework was designed to help in the assessment process of management practices pertaining to marketing initiatives during times of crisis. Results indicated the presence of tactical elements that assembled the traditional marketing mix model in the investigated hotels. However, these elements are not effectively used and the interaction between them not appears very clear. Results also indicated that the new proposed model would help in providing a framework for the Egyptian hospitality industry to maintain their competitive position during crisis time and avoiding undesired situations for labour force and decline of companies׳ revenues.

Focusing on the characteristics of destinations, this paper pursues to identify the role of spatial spillovers in driving location choices of firms. With this objective a spatial conditional logit framework is defined, allowing for neighbourhood-related spatial effects. Additionally, a broad indicator of spatial spillovers generated by a given destination is proposed. The model is then applied to empirically capture the behaviour of more than 66000 new manufacturing firms established in 316 municipalities of the Spanish Mediterranean Arc (SMA) between 1998 and 2008. Estimation results show that such spatial effects have a remarkable impact on the location decisions of high-tech companies relative to those of low-tech ones.

El mercado turístico internacional presenta importantes cambios en los últimos años, entre los que destaca la reducción de la duración de la estancia de los visitantes en destinos tradicionales, con evidentes efectos sobre el modelo turístico asociado. Los destinos de sol y playa españoles se encuentran dentro de este grupo, siendo además aquellos que mayor número de visitantes acogen del conjunto del panorama nacional. Este trabajo analiza los factores determinantes de la estancia turística en un destino emergente de sol y playa español, mediante la aplicación de un modelo logit ordenado generalizado. Los resultados obtenidos señalan que, en general, tanto los perfiles individuales del turista, como las propias características del destino, son importantes factores determinantes de la estancia turística. Asimismo, el análisis desarrollado sugiere que políticas destinadas a la mejora de la estancia media por turista lograrían contribuir a elevar el gasto total de cada visitante. Estos resultados proporcionan información relevante para la gestión de la demanda turística por parte de los agentes implicados en la misma.