Economic Impact Of Cruise Tourism: The Case Of Costa Rica

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Brida, J. G., & Zapata, S. (2010). Economic impacts of cruise tourism: The case of Costa Rica. Anatolia: An international journal of tourism & hospitality research, 21(2), 322-338.

This is an Economic analysis of the impacts of cruise ship tourism specifically pertaining to Costa Rica. The analysis was published in the “International Journal of Tourism & Hospitality Research”. The source has trusted information written by two established, well known, professors, in the tourism field, Juan Brida and Sandra Zapata. The source houses a wealth of statistical information that illustrates the positive impacts that cruise ships have on Costa Rica. Not only does the article have data on the exact number of cruise ship passengers that

The article was written by professionals at the School of Logistics at Inha University in Korea. This source discusses the newly immerging cruise industry in various Asian countries. The researchers came up with mathematical equations to foresee the economic impact the industry will have on various Asian economy’s. With the information predicted, the data was organized into charts that breach down each expenditure into sectors such as, food and kindred products. The information presented could present a bias considering the researchers are Asian and they are forecasting the outcome and effects on an Asian economy. Overall, the source presents statistical data, of the benefits of the cruise ship industry, in an emerging market. This source was extremely difficult to locate. I had to spend a lot of time on EBSCO trying to re-find it. The content presented comes from an interesting perspective considering it is a mathematical prediction. I feel because it is a predication it will not have a concrete impact on the reader. I originally found the source useful, but after a closer analysis, I found the information is just too vague. I do not see this source being used in my research

The editor, Clement A Tisdell, is from the University of Queensland, Australia and focuses on tourism economics. The information from the handbook is well trusted with every fact or claim having its own individual citation for verification and further studies. This source surprisingly, had more information on the background and current state of the cruise industry than it did about economics of it all. The article does provide valuable data when it comes to the increasing trends of the industry which could then be related to the outcomes of the also increasing economic