1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788240203321

Autore

Romeu Rafael

Titolo

Vacation Over : : Implications for the Caribbean of Opening U.S.-Cuba Tourism / / Rafael Romeu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

1-4623-2552-1

1-4527-9448-0

9786612841132

1-282-84113-0

1-4518-7020-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (64 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/162

Disciplina

338.47917290452

Soggetti

Tourism - Caribbean Area - Econometric models

Tourism - Cuba - Econometric models

International economic relations - Econometric models

Tourism - Econometric models

Econometrics

Exports and Imports

Industries: Hospital,Travel and Tourism

Natural Disasters

Sports

Gambling

Restaurants

Recreation

Tourism

Econometric Modeling: General

Climate

Natural Disasters and Their Management

Global Warming

Trade Policy

International Trade Organizations

Hospitality, leisure & tourism industries

Econometrics & economic statistics

Natural disasters

International economics

Gravity models

Trade agreements



Trade liberalization

Econometric models

Commercial treaties

Commercial policy

Cuba Foreign economic relations United States Econometric models

United States Foreign economic relations Cuba Econometric models

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Adapting Gravity Trade Theory; III. Data; IV. Estimation; V. Conclusions; Tables; 1. Descriptive Statistics of Caribbean Tourism; 2. Destination Tourist Base Concentration; 3. OECD and Caribbean Country Groups; 4. Hurricanes Making Landfall, 1995-2004; 5. Gravity Estimates of Caribbean Tourism; 6. Cuba: Estimates of Bilateral Tourist Arrivals; 7. The Impact on the Caribbean of Opening U.S. tourism to Cuba; 8. Alternative Estimates of U.S.-Cuba Unrestricted Tourism in the Caribbean; 9. Model 1: Projected Arrivals from Gravity Estimates

10. Model 3: Long-term Gravity Estimation with Industry Costs Figures; 1. OECD Tourist Arrivals; 2. Cuba-U.S. Tourism Distortions; 3. Evolution of Cuba in Caribbean Tourism; 4. Distribution of Tourist within Destinations; 5. Top Five Clients of Caribbean Destinations, 1995-2004; 6. Top Five Destinations of OECD Visitors, 1995-2004; 7. Clustering by Tourism Preferences 1995-2004; 8. Clustering by Fundamentals and Culture; 9. Cost Comparison Across Caribbean; 10. Market Concentration Based on Hotel Rooms, 1996-2004; 11. Airlines Owned by OECD and Caribbean Countries

12. Modeling of Tourist from the U.S.A 13. Modeling of Tourist Arrivals to Cuba; 14. Hotel Capacity Utilization; 15. Before and After Assuming U.S. Tourists New to Caribbean; 16. Pie Chart of Visitor Distribution Assuming All New U.S. Tourists; 17. Before and After Assuming No New U.S. Tourists; 18. Pie Chart of Visitor Distribution Assuming No New U.S. Tourists; 19. Map Assuming U.S. Arrivals Divert from the Rest of the Caribbean; 20. Caribbean by U.S. Arrivals and OECD by Arrivals to Cuba; 21. Gravity Estimates of Long-term Adjustment of Destinations; 22. Pie Charts of Gravity Estimates

23. Gravity Estimates of Percent Change in Arrivals 24. OECD, Caribbean, Relative Size with Open Tourism; VI. References; VII. Appendix

Sommario/riassunto

An opening of Cuba to U.S. tourism would represent a seismic shift in the Caribbean's tourism industry. This study models the impact of such a potential opening by estimating a counterfactual that captures the current bilateral restriction on tourism between the two countries. After controlling for natural disasters, trade agreements, and other factors, the results show that a hypothetical liberalization of Cuba-U.S. tourism would increase long-term regional arrivals. Neighboring destinations would lose the implicit protection the current restriction affords them, and Cuba would gain market share, but this would be partially offset in the short-run by the redistribution of non-U.S. tourists currently in



Cuba. The results also suggest that Caribbean countries have in general not lowered their dependency on U.S. tourists, leaving them vulnerable to this potential change.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780814303321

Autore

Teitelbaum Stanley H.

Titolo

Athletes who indulge their dark side [[electronic resource] ] : sex, drugs, and cover-ups / / Stanley H. Teitelbaum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara : , : Libraries Unlimited, , 2022

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2023

ISBN

979-84-00-61564-1

1-282-38585-2

9786612385858

0-313-37757-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Disciplina

796.01

796/.01

Soggetti

Sports psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Steroids Scandal; 2 The Dangers of Invincibility; 3 Recent Gambling Scandals; 4 Athletes Who Flirt with Disaster; 5 Women Involved in Sports Scandals; 6 Murder Scandals; 7 Cover-Ups; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A leading psychologist explores the phenomenon of athletes across the sports world who engage in high-risk behavior that often destroys lives, bodies, and reputations.  From sex and drugs to violence, gambling, and wholesale conspiracies, scandals are everywhere in sports. Each of these problems is its own issue, and every case is separate, but taken as a whole this criminal pathology is indicative of a widespread problem with athletes and responsibility. In this wide-ranging and deep-seeking investigation, psychologist Stanley H.



Teitelbaum asks why elite athletes take enormous risks with their lives and careers.   Teitelbaum analyzes and diagnoses this culturally resonant set of problems with an honest, critical eye, looking at everything from baseball's steroid abusers to gambling scandals in the NBA to the steady stream of athletes arrested for domestic violence to the murder trials of O.J. Simpson and wrestler Chris Benoit. A concluding chapter holds sports commissioners and others to task for hiding behind a façade of ignorance and duplicitous naïveté in attempting to cover up or defuse brewing scandals.