scholarly journals THRESHOLD EFFECT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE ON TOURISM SECTOR DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM TOP 10 AFRICAN DESTINATIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (4 supplement) ◽  
pp. 1336-1345
Author(s):  
Abobaker Al.Al. HADOOD ◽  
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Ridha Ali Mohamed BEN SALEH ◽  
Khaled AB EMGEG ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Threshold Effect ◽  
Critical Threshold ◽  
Linear Effect ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
International Tourist ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Ict Infrastructure ◽  
Tourism Arrivals

Tourism has become an information-intensive business that heavily relies on ICT to provide information and conduct transactions for consumers of touristic products and services. Thus, ICT infrastructure would play a major role in the development of the tourism sector. This paper aims to investigate the threshold effect of ICT infrastructure on tourism sector development in top10 African tourism destinations including ; Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda. To do so, a double panel threshold regression model utilized over the period 2004 to 2017. The empirical results revealed a new perspective that there is a double-threshold effect of ICT infrastructure on the development of tourism sector, indicating a non-linear effect of ICT infrastructure on the development of tourism sector in top 10 African tourism destinations. More specifically, the empirical results reveal that ICT infrastructure weakly and positively derives the number of intentional tourism arrivals and international tourist receipts when the level of ICT infrastructure is less or equal to the first threshold, while it strongly and positively derives the number of intentional tourism arrivals and international tourist when the level of ICT infrastructure is less or equal to the first and second thresholds. Thus, this paper provides important implications for policy makers, in that maximizing the benefits from information technology in developing tourism sector can be achieved when its level between certain critical threshold values.

Adventure Tourism in India- An Emerging Form of Tourism

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandip Patil
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Adventure Tourism ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
International Tourist ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Water Sports ◽  
Adventure Sports ◽  
Relevant Work

Nature is attractive as tourism destinations. Adventure Tourism is an activity where all Challenging natural sources available where we visit, dare and face. Adventure Tourism is categorized in Three Major Part. Mountaineering, Aero sports and Water Sports. The entire activities we Called ADVENTURE SPORTS. Mountaineering is a long established adventure sport predicated on physical activity, challenge, and risk-taking. It has been, hitherto, the preserve of an experienced elite whose approach is epitomized by self-reliance and independent operation in such destinations. Social boundaries separating mountaineers from tourists are becoming blurred. Billions of International Tourist in the World travelled in 2013 for relevant work, Profit Gaining and for development. On the Global basis Global Tourism books for 9% of global GDP, 30% of services exports and 1 in every 11 jobs. Tourism Sector helps to make above impact better Because every tourist counts.

ARE SHOCKS TO TOURIST ARRIVALS IN MOROCCO PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Younesse El Menyari
Keyword(s):  
Unit Root ◽  
Unit Root Tests ◽  
External Shocks ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
International Tourist ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Source Countries ◽  
Linearity Test ◽  
Tourism Arrivals

The main goal of this paper is to examine whether shocks had a permanent or temporary effect on international tourist arrivals in Morocco for its top 8 source countries. For this purpose, we apply the Harvey, Leybourne and Xiao (2008) linearity test and the linear tests and non-linear unit root (Elliott, Rothenberg, & Stock, 1996; Hepsag, 2019; Kruse, 2011; Lee & Strazicich, 2004). The results show that the series with linear characteristics are tourist arrivals from UK and USA and those with non-linear characteristics are tourist arrivals from Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands and Germany. The unit root tests reject the null hypothesis of a non-stationarity in tourist arrivals from all countries except the Germany. The implication of these findings is that the shocks had a temporary effect on tourism arrivals from 7 markets to Morocco. Therefore, Morocco's tourism sector is a sustainable industry as external shocks have not had long term disruption in the flow of tourist arrivals.

Threshold Effect of Bank-specific Determinants of Non-performing Assets: An Application in Indian Banking

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. S1-S34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samaresh Bardhan ◽  
Rajesh Sharma ◽  
Vivekananda Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Banking System ◽  
Threshold Effect ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Critical Threshold ◽  
Credit Growth ◽  
Linear Effect ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Rule Out

The article investigates role of bank-specific factors on non-performing assets (NPAs) in Indian banking system in a panel threshold framework (Hansen, 1999, Journal of Econometrics, 93(2), 345–368), using an unbalanced panel of 82 scheduled commercial banks over the period of 1995–1996 to 2010–2011. We consider capital to risk-weighted assets ratio (CRAR) and credit growth as alternative threshold variables (and regime dependent) along with relevant bank-specific variables treated as regime independent. Findings reveal that CRAR exerts negative and significant impact on NPAs once it reaches a critical threshold. Possible implication is that banks extend less risky loans in a high CRAR regime than in low CRAR regime that helps reduce NPAs. With credit growth as threshold as well as regime dependent, we observe statistically significant non-linear effect of credit growth on NPAs. Beyond threshold, credit growth exerts significant negative effect on NPAs that may imply that banks extend good quality loans. However, we cannot rule out the possibility of evidence of ‘ever-greening hypothesis’ of bad debts in Indian banking, that is, banks just roll over previous bad debts into fresh performing loans. JEL Classification: G21, G28, C13, C33

scholarly journals Kajian Brand Equity dan City Branding terhadap Keputusan Mengunjungi Objek Wisata

2019 ◽  
pp. 192-206
Author(s):  
Terra Saptina Maulani ◽  
Mohamad Hadi Prasetyo
Keyword(s):  
Brand Equity ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
City Branding ◽  
City Brand ◽  
The People ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
International Tourist ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Tourism Potential

ABSTRACT The tourism sector can drive the region's economy in addition to the industrial sector. Tourism potential in Indonesia has a lot of diversity in each region due to geographical and demographic factors. Government policy strongly supports the development of tourism in different regions to encourage economic growth and welfare of the people. One area in West Java province which has the potential of natural and cultural attractions are Karawang. In an effort to increase the number of visits, it requires a strategy to build a tourism object and city brand. The object of this research is natural and cultural tourism destinations in Kawarang. The research method in this study is descriptive verification, with data collection tools in the form of questionnaires. The sample in this study were 400 respondents which national and international tourist. City Branding simultaneously on the decision to visit natural and cultural tourism objects in Karawang by 53.1% ABSTRAK Sektor pariwisata dapat menggerakkan perekonomian daerah di samping sektor industri. Potensi pariwisata di Indonesia memiliki banyak keanekaragaman di setiap wilayah karena faktor geografis dan demografi. Kebijakan pemerintah sangat mendukung pengembangan pariwisata di berbagai daerah untuk mendorong pertumbuhan ekonomi dan kesejahteraan masyarakat. Salah satu daerah di provinsi Jawa Barat yang memiliki potensi wisata alam dan budaya adalah Karawang. Dalam upaya meningkatkan jumlah kunjungan, diperlukan strategi untuk membangun objek wisata dan merek kota. Objek penelitian ini adalah destinasi wisata alam dan budaya di Karawang. Metode penelitian dalam penelitian ini adalah verifikasi deskriptif, dengan alat pengumpulan data berupa kuesioner. Sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah 400 responden yang merupakan wisatawan nasional dan internasional. City Branding secara bersamaan mempengaruhi tentang keputusan untuk mengunjungi objek wisata alam dan budaya di Karawang sebesar 53,1%.

An Empirical Study of New Age Employment in Tour Operations and Allied Areas

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1and2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shyju P. J. ◽  
Rinzing Lama
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Human Resource Management Practices ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Micro Enterprises

In this study, the authors makes an attempt to understand the aspirations of the new generation employees in tour operation business and allied areas. It is being attempted with the presumption that the takeover of information technology seeded the concept of micro enterprises in tourism which functions with the business model of low investment and good turnover. The focus was in identifying employee specific factors of encouraging and discouraging in nature in the fast growing tourism sector, especially job attrition and the dynamics of human resource management practices. Factor Analysis, independent sample t-test, multiple regression have been used to establish various relationships. The findings of the study are considered to be relevant since it quantitatively establish the dynamics of employment in tourism in India.

Bridging the digital divide through ICT

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adboulaye Kaba ◽  
Raed Said
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Gulf Cooperation Council ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Gcc Countries ◽  
Ict Infrastructure

Bridging the gap of the digital divide can play an important role in education, employment and economic growth of any country. The present study attempts to examine and analyze the digital divide status of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries compared with countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other Arab countries. It uses 19 indicators of four factors adapted from The Global Information Technology Report 2009–2010 to measure the digital divide. Findings of the study indicated that GCC countries have a better ICT infrastructure than the ASEAN and other Arab countries. Similarly, the results of the study revealed that GCC nations have more ICT users than the ASEAN and other Arab countries. However, the study found no significant differences among these groups of countries in regard to government support and usage of ICT. Findings of the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) show that, across the three groups of countries, the influence of ICT infrastructure is consistently significant in narrowing the digital divide. The regression results also prove a significant relationship between government support for ICT and government usage of ICT.

THE CURRENT GROWTH EFFECT OF HEALTH TOURISM MARKET DEVELOPMENT IN TURKEY FOR THE EVALUATION ON CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 220-240
Author(s):  
Mustafa IŞIK ◽  
Yakup ÖZSEZER ◽  
Fikriye IŞIK
Keyword(s):  
Current Account ◽  
Current Account Deficit ◽  
National Income ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Growth Effect ◽  
Critical Threshold ◽  
Current Account Balance ◽  
Health Tourism ◽  
Tourism Sector

Tourism sector is one of the major driving forces to develop the Turkish economy which provides the positive contributions with new employment opportunities and the national income and payments. With aid of this developments in economy by tourism, it has also increased the interaction with alternative areas. Health Tourism is also one of the special areas in which provides to the country high added value and foreign currency exchange income. Since the revenue outcome by health tourism is reaching up to 100 billion dollars, the national policy of health tourism enable countries has been undertaken as a high interested point of investment needed area. The critical threshold of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is 4 to 5 percent as a current account balance and this deficient outcome in Turkey mostly takes on 5 to 4 percent which is a considered as a critical threshold. Health Tourism is expected to play a key role in bringing the values to the positive levels and therefore the focus is becoming on this area by health sector. Developing countries such as India, Singapore, and Thailand meet their foreign trade deficits with the income where they have obtained from this specific sector and the level of growth in this sector is at certain rate every year. The health Tourism is very crucial and significant sector for such a country Turkey, who has current budget deficit, and it is real economic sense. With Covid-19 crisis, the plans related with health tourism is re-evaluated by the coordination between Turkish Ministry of Health, Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Economy. Especially, with the infrastructure works carried for public and city hospitals has been capable of providing health tourism services within the organization which is called “USHAŞ (International Health Services)”. The health tourism sector offers significant opportunities for Turkey during Covid-19 pandemic effects on our current account deficit and the decline in economic recovery of our tourism industry and losses. With health tourism created opportunities is already in an increasing trend, to contribute to the country’s economy much faster by increasing target markets with public-private cooperation.

The ACTRES parallel corpus: an English–Spanish translation corpus

Corpora ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlén Izquierdo ◽  
Knut Hofland ◽  
Øystein Reigem
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
The University

This paper describes the compilation of the ACTRES Parallel Corpus, an English–Spanish translation corpus built at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of León (Spain) by the ACTRES research group. The computerisation of the corpus was carried out in collaboration with Knut Hofland and Øystein Reigem, from the Department of Culture, Language and Information Technology, Aksis, at the UNIFOB/University of Bergen (Norway). The corpus is conceived as a powerful tool for cross-linguistic research in the fields of Contrastive Analysis and Descriptive Translation Studies. It was the need to bridge the gap between these disciplines and to extend applications that encouraged the building of a parallel corpus as a suitable tool to achieve these goals. This paper focusses on the practical aspects of building the corpus. A brief account of the research which prompted this endeavour precedes the description of this process. 4 4 This paper is an account of the building of the ACTRES Parallel Corpus, so no empirical results from research done on the basis of the corpus are reported here. Concerning new insights drawn from the actual use of P-ACTRES in English–Spanish translation and contrastive projects, there is an extended bibliography at: http://actres.unileon.es/

scholarly journals ESSENCE OF INNOVATIVE POLICY OF RECREATION-TOURISM SPHERE DEVELOPMENT

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Larysa Mykhaylivna Chepurda ◽  
Ganna Mykolayivna Chepurda ◽  
Igor Volodymyrovych Bezugliy
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Common Information ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Realization Process ◽  
The Impact

Urgency of the research. The need to improve the ter-minology of the recreation and tourism sector is due to the emergence of new forms of business organization and the emergence of innovative institutions that significantly affect the processes of socio-economic development. Target setting. There is a scientific problem with the disclosure of the content of innovation in tourism, the innova-tion policy in the recreation-tourism sector, the definition of the innovation policy components, the mechanisms for its formation and implementation. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The literature reflects the evolution of the concept of "innovation in tourism." There are typologies and examples of such innovations. The examples of application of the latest innova-tive technologies at the Ukrainian tourism market are ana-lyzed and presented. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. The accumulated theoretical material requires the synthesis and development of methodological recommendations for the formation and implementation of innovation policy in the rec-reational and tourist sector of Ukraine. There is not a single standardized definition of innovation and innovation policy in tourism in the scientific community. The research objective. To reveal the meaning of the definitions: "Innovations in tourism", "Innovation policy in the recreation-tourism sphere". To generalize existing typologies of innovations in tourism. Identify the main factors hampering the implementation of information technology in the recrea-tion-tourism sector of Ukraine. To reveal the main directions of information support of the innovation policy realization process in the recreation-tourism sphere. The statement of basic materials. The article presents the existing definitions of the terms "innovation in tourism", "innovation policy in tourism". The author's interpretation of these terms is given. The existing classification of innova-tions in tourism is generalized. Examples of such innovations are given. The most common information technologies of-fered for use in tourism are presented. These factors re-strain the effective implementation of information technology in tourism. Conclusions. The effectiveness of state innovation poli-cy can be estimated by the impact on the pace of entrepre-neurship, the level of harmonization of innovation policy in society and stimulation of scientific development.

scholarly journals Peran Aplikasi “Visiting Jogja” dalam Mengembalikan Kepercayaan Wisatawan untuk Berwisata ke Yogyakarta

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Fitria Jalaluddin ◽  
Alfelia Nugky Permatasari
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Public ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Daily Mobility ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Major Loss ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Tourism Attractions ◽  
New Applications ◽  
Special Region

Covid-19 made several countries adopt lock-down policies as an effort to break the chain of spreading the virus. However, this policy greatly affects sectors related to the daily mobility of people, especially the tourism sector which has been most significantly affected by Covid-19. One of the provinces in Indonesia that has experienced a major loss in the tourism sector due to Covid-19 is the Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY). Therefore, the DIY government gradually continues to encourage the tourism sector to resume operations, one of which is by releasing new applications for tourists, namely "Jogja Pass" and "Visiting Jogja" to monitor visitors to tourism destinations in DIY. In this study the author will focus on studying the application "Visiting Jogja". The purpose of this research is to examine the advantages and disadvantages of the "Visiting Jogja" application from the user's point of view, and to find out whether the "Visiting Jogja" application can help restore the confidence of tourists to travel to Yogyakarta. This study uses qualitative research methods, with data collection techniques through direct interviews with 10 respondents as a sample who is determined randomly. The results show that the application "Visiting Jogja" can provide assurance for tourists, which helps generate confidence in users to visit more tourism attractions in Yogyakarta. However, the government's efforts in socializing and promoting the “Visiting Jogja” application to the public are still lacking.

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