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Differences in residents' attitudes towards tourism among mass tourism destinations
(Wiley, 2017-09)
This article contributes to extant knowledge by analysing differences in the attitudes
towards tourism of residents living in several micro-destinations (cities) within a larger
tourism destination, ...
Factors affecting time spent visiting heritage city areas
(MDPI, 2018-06-01)
Urban tourism is growing fast, and in many cities visitor influx tends to concentrate in historic urban centers. When there are large numbers of visitors, deepening the knowledge on visitor time consumption ...
A comparison of banks and real estate intermediaries as house sellers
(Springer Nature, 2023)
The foreclosure crisis associated with the banking crisis transformed banks in the hardesthit countries into real estate brokers. The main novelty of this paper is to study banks as sellers of their own ...
Economic and social yield of investing in a sporting event: sustainable value creation in a territory
(MDPI, 2021-06-23)
Sporting events are a stimulant for the economy and for improving social benefits. This paper aims to estimate a sporting event’s economic and social impact through input–output tables and cost-benefit ...
Socially responsible HR practices and their effects on employees’ wellbeing: empirical evidence from Catalonia, Spain
(Elsevier, 2018-08)
Corporate social responsibility towards employees has been promoted by international organizations that produced recommendations, conventions, principles and other documents to enhance job quality and ...
The economic and social value of spa tourism: the case of balneotherapy in Maresme, Spain
(PLoS, 2022-01-31)
The aim of this article is to assess both the economic and social value of balneotherapy and spa tourism, being the first paper in carrying out this analysis. The study has been conducted in Maresme, a ...
The economic and social value of science and technology parks. The case of Tecnocampus
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-12-23)
This article aims to measure both the economic and social value of Tecnocampus, a Science and Technology Park in its region of influence (Mataró city in the Maresme region of Catalonia, Spain). Our ...
The importance of administrative data in the evaluation of the incidence of social housing allowance programmes
(Elsevier, 2022-10)
The aim of this work is to assess the rental assistance programme that was implemented by the Catalan regional government in the 2010s using administrative data provided by the Catalonia Housing Agency ...
How on earth did Spanish banking sell the housing stock?
(SAGE Publications Inc, 2022)
The accumulation of properties by Spanish banks during the crisis of the first decade of the 21st century has definitely changed the housing market. An optimal house price valuation is useful to determine ...
How to become a cashless economy and what are the determinants of eliminating cash
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-04-04)
This paper aims to ascertain the determinants by which individuals decide to use credit cards as a payment method rather than cash; that is, to understand changes in socioeconomic factors on the long-term ...