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- Title
TOURISM TAXATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY IN A MODEL WITH VERTICAL DIFFERENTIATION.
- Authors
Brida, Juan Gabriel; Pereyra, Juan S.
- Abstract
The environmental quality of destination has become a tool that hotels have to hold the tourism demand. In this paper we are going to present a model of vertical differentiation in the accommodation industry, where differentiation is associated with quality. Additionally, we assume the existence of a lump sum tax in the accommodation industry. Two are the main results which will be proved in this article; first, if the tourist's willingness to pay for quality increases then both the demand and the price for tourism services increase as a result. However, the increment of the demand for best environmental quality gets higher, and therefore, the environmental quality level of tourism services, that the destination offers, decreases. Second, an increase in the value of the tourism tax leads to an increase in the total environmental quality of the destination.
- Subjects
TOURISM taxation; ENVIRONMENTAL quality; TOURISTS; HOTELS; TOURIST attractions; HOSPITALITY industry; WILLINGNESS to pay; CONSUMER attitudes
- Publication
Tourismos, 2009, Vol 4, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
1790-8418
- Publication type
Article