Assessing the Economic Impact of Culture in English Market Towns: A Causal Chain Approach

Robert Young, Anita Fernandez Young, Jennifer Parkin and Abigail Diamond
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Robert Young: Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK
Anita Fernandez Young: Tourism and Travel Research Institute, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Jennifer Parkin: School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
Abigail Diamond: CFE, Leicester, UK

Tourism Economics, 2010, vol. 16, issue 4, 925-951

Abstract: In assessing the economic impact of a cultural event or attraction, the number of visits caused by the event or attraction is the pivotal variable. In the instance of many visitors, the causal impact is neither absent nor complete, but partial. The authors develop a method of assessing directly the aggregate causal impact of a cultural event or attraction and apply this in four case studies of culture in market towns. There emerges a pattern in the way economic impact comes about.

Keywords: visitor numbers; causal chains; economic impact; cultural tourism; market towns; England (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.5367/te.2010.0016

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