• Economic Decline and the Birth of a Tourist Nation 

      Xie, Jinghua; Tveterås, Sigbjørn Landazuri (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-24)
      Price competitiveness is key for tourists’ destination choice. In the study, we evaluate the effects of an economic decline caused by non-tourism industry on a tourist destination’s price competitiveness. An econometric model of hotel revenue function is estimated in the study. Specifically, we estimate hotel revenue functions at the regional level in Norway to investigate how the crude oil price ...
    • Economic drivers for the Chinese tourists 

      Xie, Jinghua; Tveterås, Sigbjørn Landazuri (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-02)
      Asia, particularly China, has become an attractive market that receives much attention in the Norwegian tourism industry. This raises relevant questions about the sustainability of the Chinese tourism boom. If the Norwegian tourism industry increasingly targets this rapidly growing market with larger investments, it should respond to the prospects of long-term growth. Such prospects hinge on the ...