As highlighted through a survey of early studies of international tourism by Sinclair (1998), income from tourism contributes significantly to the developing countries, in particular to the SIDS. Yet, few studies have rigorously investigated the factors that influence international tourist…
What do consumers value in tourism? This question is of practical interest to the $1.2 trillion/year world tourism industry, policy makers in tourism-dependent countries such as Maldives, as well as economists interested in the theory of consumer behavior.[1]Answering this question…
I am very thankful to ‘Team Kaiho Sangyo’ for accepting me to learn about Automotive Recycling. I was hosted at their International Recycling Education Centre (IREC). On 5th September, following an introductory meeting with the President of the Company Mr.…
Since the 1950s, international tourism has played a major role in economic development in the developing world in general and small island developing states (SIDS) in particular. The Maldives, for example, has transformed itself from sleepy fishing villages into a…
A new region-based comparative global history emerged when Jones (1981) compared Europe with three Asian empires (China, Japan, and India for 1400-1800), thus, recent research has explored economic history without being Eurocentric (Sugihara, 2014). For example, in his book on…
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