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Movies and holidays: The empirical relationship between movies and tourism

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posted on 2024-11-23, 08:00 authored by Heather Mitchell, Mark Stewart
Governments around the world believe that tourism will increase if locations within their nations are featured in films. Money and other inducements are often offered to moviemakers to encourage them to shoot within a particular constituency. This article finds a positive and statistically significant relationship between successful films and tourism.

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Journal

Applied Economics Letters

Volume

19

Issue

15

Start page

1437

End page

1440

Total pages

4

Publisher

Routledge

Place published

United Kingdom

Language

English

Copyright

© 2012 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC

Notes

This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article submitted for consideration in the Applied Economics Letters 2012 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC; Applied Economics Letters is available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504851.2011.631888#.UeTtzofFV8E http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2011.631888

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2006033761

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2012-07-09

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  • Yes

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