Tourism Development and Border Asymmetries: An Exploratory Analysis of Market-Driven Cross-Border Shopping Tourism
| Autor: | Birgit Leick, Theo Schewe, Bjørnar Karlsen Kivedal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0211 other engineering and technologies
Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Development Market driven crossborder tourism 0502 economics and business border asymmetries Economic geography Business and International Management shopping tourism Tourism development 05 social sciences 021107 urban & regional planning Exploratory analysis Cross-border tourism Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management tourism development Business Shopping tourism Border asymmetries Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210 [VDP] 050212 sport leisure & tourism Tourism |
| Zdroj: | Tourism Planning & Development |
| ISSN: | 2156-8324 2156-8316 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/21568316.2020.1837230 |
| Popis: | This paper explores whether shopping tourism in the context of cross-border regions may trigger more viable, and long-term, tourism despite persistent border asymmetries (e.g., price and tax differences) which are typically key to luring tourists to short-term shopping visits. While tourism development is often an explicit goal of cross-border policy initiatives, this paper is devoted to the market-driven processes that might drive tourism beyond short-term shopping in borderlands. Based upon a case study from the Norwegian-Swedish border region of Østfold-Fyrbodal, it finds that asymmetric cross-border shopping tourism supports the development of a diversified tourism sector with a variety of tourist attractions and services organised around shopping, longer overnight stays and second-home tourism. Despite persistent border asymmetries, market processes may balance off the short-term shopping visits towards supporting long-term tourism, which provides economic value to the cross-border region. |
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