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Flight ticket taxes in Europe: Environmental and economic impact; Bernardo, Valeria ; Fageda, Xavier ; Teixidó, Jordi; Transportation research. Part A, Policy and practice, 2024-01, Vol.179, p.103892

We examine the causal impact of flight ticket taxes on airline flights and derived CO2 emissions and analyse its distributional effects between airlines and travellers and within travellers. We use a dataset on flights within Europe at the airline-route level and apply a staggered difference-in-differences approach considering potential bias of the standard two-way fixed effects and the potential distorting effects of heterogeneities between treated and control routes.(...)

From Over-Tourism to Under-Tourism via COVID-19: Lessons for Sustainable Tourism Management; Mandeep Mahendru et al.; Evaluation review, 2024-02, Vol.48 (1), p.177-210

With various strains of the novel coronavirus emerging during the last few years, there is a need to reinvent and manage the tourism industry by engaging various stakeholders. Industry and policymakers need to observe the shift and curate tourism-related products and offerings accordingly. (…) The study’s findings can be used to inform future policies and directions; for example, the findings indicate that the hospitality industry is facing challenges that necessitate new regulations to address its socioeconomic and environmental impacts.

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