Title
Optimal periodic development of a pollution generating tourism industry
Abstract
This paper studies how environmental pollution affects optimal development of the tourism industry over time. The planner has the possibility to stimulate tourism by carrying out service expenditures, like organizing events, advertising, attracting seasonal workers, etc. The positive effect of these expenditures on tourism is negatively influenced by the presence of pollution, since the latter element distracts tourists from visiting a particular region. We show that for a particular scenario service expenditures, tourism as well as pollution exhibit a cyclical development over time. This policy implies that when pollution is high, tourism activities are reduced in order to give the environment a chance to recover. Environmentalists advocate this behavior, but in this paper, we show that this policy is also optimal from a profit maximizing point of view.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1016/S0377-2217(00)00279-4
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Environment,Pollution,Dynamic programming,System dynamics
Journal
134
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0377-2217
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alfred Greiner100.34
Gustav Feichtinger214338.93
Josef Haunschmied3142.41
Peter M. Kort420544.47
Richard F. Hartl51863137.30