Preservation of environmental quality and tourist investments Article

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abstract

• We develop a theoretical model to analyze the incentives for hotel chains to make environmentally friendly investments. We show that the level of investment of hotel chains to improve the environmental quality of a tourist destination depends positively on two factors: tourist demand and the level of aggregate income. The framework is based on a model of horizontal differentiation à la Hotelling. By introducing a demand function for tourist commodities, we show that an increase in total income encourages hotel chains in the regions with higher demand to invest on environmental quality.

authors

• Accinelli Gamba Elvio
• Brida J.B.
• Carrera E.J.S.

publication date

• 2008-01-01

published in

• European Journal of Tourism Research  Journal

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• Environmental investment; Hotel chain; Hotelling competition; Sustainable tourism

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start page

• 4

end page

• 15

volume

• 1

issue

• 1