Changing Geographies of International Tourist Patterns: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis
Published: 2014
Author(s) Name: Dikshit Gupta, Sandeep Thind |
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Abstract
Tourism has emerged as one of the strongest and the most sensitive components in the service industry in the last two decades. New destinations has emerged on the map of the world whereas, old has been unable to retain their position. The share of income generated by the tourism sector has changed not only temporally but spatially as well. Central Eastern Europe, North China has emerged as new destinations for international tourists, Northern Europe has lost its share of international tourists. Therefore, looking at the spatio-temporal changes in the share of international tourist arrivals the present paper attempts to analyze the spatio-temporal variations in international tourist arrivals globally and regionally.
Keywords: Spatio-temporal, Globally, Regionally, Destinations
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