Estimating cultural heritage sites effect on food and accommodations with synthetic controls

Autor: Douglas Eric Belleville, Jr, G. Jason Jolley
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 100045- (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2666-9579
DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2022.100045
Popis: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has developed a list of over 1000 cultural and world heritage sites. We seek to estimate a casual impact on food and accommodations industries that two of these sites influence for their surrounding region. This paper is the first to apply a synthetic control framework to two cultural heritage sites; Poverty Point and the San Antonio Missions. Using food and accommodations data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2008 to 2020, we find a statistically significant positive effect from the accreditation of Poverty Point on tourism establishments in West Carroll Parish, but no similarly significant effect from the San Antonio Missions.
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