Perspective of Sustainable Rural Tourism in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK): Comparative Study of ? and ? Convergence in the Economic Development Regions

Gina Ionela Butnaru and Alina Haller
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Gina Ionela Butnaru: Department of Management, Marketing and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Bulevardul Carol I 11, 700506 Iasi, Romania

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 4, 1-22

Abstract: Tourism is an activity which globally develops proportionally with the evolution of progress. The opportunities we enjoy are bigger than ever, but their price should be lowered in order for the global society to develop its wealth. This can be performed by sustainability, a concept which will join in the future all economic activities, not only tourism. Our analysis is focused on the specific case of the UK, one of the main tourist destinations in the world. It is well known that cultural tourism is the form attracting the highest number of foreign visitors. However, we can see the importance given to rural tourism. The main methods used to perform the present analysis are ? and ? convergence. They proved their efficiency in other research studies, which led to a high degree of accuracy of the results. ? and ? convergence analysis is performed on a sample of 12 Economic Development Regions from the UK, among which we will determine the degree of convergence and divergence of sustainable rural tourism.

Keywords: rural tourism; rural development; sustainable tourism; ? convergence; ? convergence; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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