scholarly journals Public Goods in Tourism Municipalities: Formal Analysis, Empirical Evidence and Implications for Sustainable Development

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricard Rigall-I-Torrent ◽  
Modest Fluvià
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Utility Functions ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Production Functions ◽  
Private Firms ◽  
Tourism Product

This paper formally analyses the effects that public goods (in a broad sense) have on tourists and private tourism firms. By approaching the tourism product as a bundle of characteristics, the paper shows how the supply of public goods in tourism municipalities positively affects both the tourists' utility functions and the private firms' production functions. Some implications of this fact regarding the sustainability of tourism are discussed. By means of hedonic methods, empirical evidence of location on prices for hotels on Catalonia's coast (Spain) is provided.

Evaluation of the support capacity of land use system on regional sustainable development: Methods and empirical evidence

2022 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Han-bing LI ◽  
Xiao-bin JIN ◽  
Ke WU ◽  
Bo HAN ◽  
Rui SUN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Land Use System ◽  
Regional Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Methods

Sustainable Development and Restructuring Romanian Tourism Product in Accordance With European Tourists Segments

2019 ◽  
pp. 384-395
Author(s):  
Liviu Neamtu ◽  
Adina Claudia Neamtu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
New Products ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Product Diversification ◽  
Diversification Strategy ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Product

Sustainable tourism development will be achieved through some major changes taking place in the tourism industry in Romania, in the following period. These changes should cover both aspects of structure in tourism and processes and interactions in tourist activities. First of all, the tourism in Romania shall also adopt a diversification strategy, focusing on the integration of new activity fields, as new services, along with the improvement of the existent ones, new tourist facilities, by the construction of centers/units, in compliance with the standards requested by the current tourism, but in the first place of some new products and tourist programmes provided by the current tourist centers. By studying consumer behavior of European tourists visiting Romania, and trends in their preferences regarding requested touristic product the authors propose a pattern for tourism product diversification and expansion of several existing forms of tourism.

Degree intensifiers as expressives in Mandarin Chinese

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiguo Xie ◽  
Qiongpeng Luo
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Conventional Implicature ◽  
Strong Emotion ◽  
Interesting Class ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Degree Adverbs

Abstract In this paper, we provide an empirical description and a theoretical analysis of the adverbial use of hǎo ‘(lit.) good’, lǎo ‘(lit.) old’, and guài ‘(lit.) strange’ in Mandarin Chinese. The three adverbs represent a small yet theoretically interesting class of lexical items. Because they manifest certain similarities to canonical degree adverbs such as hěn ‘very’ and fēicháng ‘extremely’, they have been usually treated as pure degree adverbs in the descriptive linguistics literature. Empirical evidence, however, shows that these adverbs actually fuse together both degree intensification and expressive meanings. For instance, they convey strong emotion on the part of the speaker and cannot appear in non-veridical contexts such as negation, modals, information-seeking questions, and antecedents of conditionals. We argue that hǎo, lǎo, and guài are mixed-content lexical items. Based on their empirical behaviors, we follow recent advances in multidimensional semantics to propose a hybrid formal analysis of hǎo, lǎo, and guài by incorporating degree semantics into a multidimensional logic for conventional implicature.

SOE reforms create new opportunities in China

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Private Firms ◽  
Advanced Manufacturing ◽  
State Control ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Improve Efficiency ◽  
The Government

Subject Reforms of China's state-owned enterprises. Significance China’s government rejects the wholesale privatisation of its state-owned enterprises (SOEs), but gradual reforms are under way that add up to significant changes. The government is consolidating state control in strategic industries, such as advanced manufacturing, but in the remaining areas is implementing market-based reforms that allow private investment in SOEs and force them to compete with private firms. Impacts SOEs providing public goods will stay under state control but may outsource to private firms to improve efficiency. Investing in SOEs is not always a safe bet; some will be allowed to fail. Competitive SOEs will make acquisitions of private firms, extending the state’s reach through market transactions.

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