Linking Economic Development to Highway Improvements: Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota

2003 ◽  
Vol 1848 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakina Khan ◽  
David Levy
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
South Dakota ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Transportation Infrastructure ◽  
Pine Ridge ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Transportation Improvements

Much of the literature on the economic benefits associated with investments in transportation infrastructure focuses on locations with at least some measure of private-sector economic activity. The focus here is on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, an area with extremely limited private economic activity and a transportation network with limited connectivity and accessibility. The study was one of a series sponsored by FHWA to examine linkages between transportation improvements and economic development in rural areas. The Pine Ridge study established a framework for analyzing these linkages and focused the analysis on tourism, a key sector that both offers great potential for economic development and is dependent on improvements in transportation infrastructure. The analysis estimated the potential benefits of the tourism sector and identified the transportation improvements that would be needed to support this sector. It was found that, assuming implementation of a suite of supportive initiatives, a mature tourism sector at Pine Ridge could attract more than 1 million visitors each year, which would have an estimated total economic impact of $153 million during a 15-year period. By the end of the analysis period, these tourists would generate more than 1 million automobile trips per year, with a peak average daily traffic of 5,200 vehicles. The local enhancements in transportation infrastructure that would be needed to provide adequate levels of service include both upgrading the functional class of key roads and performing adequate maintenance throughout the life cycle of the improved roads. The costs of these transportation investments are estimated at $73.3 million.

scholarly journals THE ECONOMIC IMPACT ON GLOBAL TOURISM

10.26458/1728 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-139
Author(s):  
Bogdan Sofronov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Tourism

Tourism is an important economic activity in most countries around the world. As well as its direct economic impact,the industry has significant indirect and induced impacts.The outlook for the Tourism sector in 2017 remains robust and will continue to be at the forefront of wealth and employment creation in the global economy, despite the emergence of a number of challenging headwinds.In tourism, GDP growth is expected to accelerate to 3.8%, up from 3.1% in 2016. As nations seem to be looking increasingly inward, putting in place barriers to trade and movement of people, the role of Tourism becomes even more significant, as an engine of economic development and as a vehicle for sharing cultures, creating peace, and building mutual understanding.

scholarly journals The Romanian Agrotourism Over the Last Two Decades: Good Old Places or New Attractions?

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-189
Author(s):  
Beatris Tenie ◽  
Gina Fîntîneru ◽  
Dragoș Smedescu ◽  
Alexandru Fîntîneru
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Services Quality ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Total Employment ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Year 2000

Abstract Tourism represents an important economic activity for most of the countries all around the world. For Romania also, tourism plays an extremely important role in the economic development, contributing with 5.2% to GDP and with more than 500,000 for total employment, according to the 2017 WTTC report. Starting with the year 2000, the Romanian rural tourism and agrotourism, have seen a significant development in terms of infrastructure and services quality, political attention, legislative climate and qualified staff. In order to highlight the dynamics of Romanian agrotourism and to deliver insights about the greatest challenges of this activity in rural areas, the paper investigated the main offer and demand regional indicators of agro-tourist activity in Romania during the period 2000-2016, using the empirical data provided by the National Institute of Statistics.

scholarly journals Rural Tourism Entrepreneurship as Strategy for Economic Development in Nigeria

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Ajayi Adeola ◽  
Alarape Aderemi Ayinla
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Impact

<p>Rural tourism entrepreneurship is a tourist industry which revolutionizes businesses and prompting economic development across the globe. It encompasses huge range activities, natural or man-made attractions, amenities and facilities, transportation, marketing and information systems. It is also an important export for 83% of the developing countries and the main export for one third of them. In 2000, developing countries recorded 142.6 million international arrivals an increase of 95% compared to the figures of 1990.However, only developing countries with effective natural and man-made tourism supporting and enhancing infrastructure have been able to develop their tourism sector and seize the attendance advantages. Rural areas of Nigeria possess some distinctive peculiarities which can be transformed into attractive tourist centers.</p><p><br />In spite of all these, rural tourism areas are still faced with myriad problems which include poor finance inadequate awareness and education, lack of progress in developing the rural of progress in developing the rural tourism potentials inadequate legislation, insecurity, entrepreneurial inertness, over-dependent on oil among others. This paper focuses on the impact and challenges of rural tourism entrepreneurship as strategy for economic development in Nigeria. It reviews literature rural tourism, tourism entrepreneurship potentials and classifications of Nigerians tourism potential’s destinations. The paper concludes that Nigeria Government should encourage rural based tourism entrepreneurship development by addressing the challenges facing rural tourism entrepreneurship in the country.</p>

scholarly journals Economic development of rural areas in relation to the concept of building the competitiveness of regions

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Melnyk ◽  
Nataliia Dobizha ◽  
Oleh Pohrishchuk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Economic Capacity

The article touches upon the issue of economic development of rural areas in relation to the concept of building competitiveness of regions. The author unfolds the concepts of competitiveness of regions and rural areas. Another concern of the study is to show a range of further prospects for the growth of rural areas. It is claimed that there is a need to build competitiveness of rural areas by strengthening economic capacity, resource base, human resources, marketing, production, and innovative and entrepreneurial potential. Particular attention is drawn to social and economic benefits resulted from the development of rural areas under the conditions of decentralization. The author argues that one of the basic elements forming the concept of competitiveness of regions and the target priority of agricultural policies is the competitiveness of rural areas, the development of local initiatives, and using resources that have not been previously utilized. Thus, the main direction is social and economic growth in all sectors of the economy. The integrated and multifunctional development of rural areas includes not only agricultural activities, but also the growth of entrepreneurship, tourism and creating a livable environment in such areas. It is emphasized that the functional impact on the competitiveness of each region has the following features: region’s specialization, business environment, entrepreneurship, inter-territorial capacity for the economic growth, effective collaboration of local self-government bodies, business entities and locals for solving the problem of building the competitiveness of region. The author comes to the conclusion that the economic development of rural areas depends on the growth in the agricultural sector and is aimed at solving social problems, building the competitiveness of regions and effective use of their economic capacity.

scholarly journals Impact of Local Economic Activity Zones on Socio-Economic Development of Rural Areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartosz Wojtyra
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Research Procedure ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
The Impact

One of the most important concepts in rural geography is the multifunctional development. In this concept, the postulated increase in the number of business entities is to lead to an improvement in the socio-economic situation. One of the ways to achieve multifunctionality may be creating local economic activity zones (LEAZ). They are created to stimulate entrepreneurship in local scale. The main purpose of the work is to determine the impact of local economic activity zones on selected factors describing socio-economic development of rural areas. The following research questions were posed: (1) In the communes after creating LEAZs, were the indicators of socio-economic development higher than the average in rural areas of voivodeship? (2) In the communes where LEAZs exist, were the indicators of socio-economic development higher within five years after the creation of LEAZs than before? (3) In the urban-rural communes where LEAZs work, were the effects more significant in the rural areas or in the city? In the research procedure, the index of average annual dynamics (the rate of change) and the Mann Whitney U test test were used primarily. The analysis shows that the average values of the dynamics in change indicators in the areas where LEAZ operates are higher or comparable with the average value for the rural areas. The study diagnosed the beneficial effect of the presence of large business entities in the LEAZ on employment growth in rural areas.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship of Inhabitants vs. Economic Activity of Large and Medium Enterprises in Rural Areas of Selected Historical Regions of Poland

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 89-104
Author(s):  
Magdalena Dej ◽  
Piotr Trzepacz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Economic Disparities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Development Level ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
Lower Silesia ◽  
Different Parts

Entrepreneurship of Inhabitants vs. Economic Activity of Large and Medium Enterprises in Rural Areas of Selected Historical Regions of PolandIn the past historical periods, each particular region of Poland was developing -- in a sense -- as separate organism; some of them were achieving a relative rise in the economic hierarchy, whereas some other were plunging in backwardness. These disparities have remained very distinctive until today, especially between the rural areas of different parts of the country. The aim of this paper is to determine diversifications of economic development level in four selected regions of Poland (Little Poland -- pol. Małopolska, West Pomerania, Lower Silesia and the Lublin Region), measured as the localisation range and characteristics of big and medium enterprises in rural areas. Another objective was to observe the relation between localisation and characteristics of those enterprises and the general initiative of local inhabitants. The analyses carried out for this paper have served to create a typology of communes, depending on the number of workplaces in big and medium enterprises in this areas, as well as the general initiative of inhabitants, which then enabled the assessment of economic disparities between rural areas of selected Polish regions.

scholarly journals TOURISM AS AN INTENSIFIER OF NATIONAL ECONOMY

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Yelena Popova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Technical Manual ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Level Of Economic Development ◽  
Statistical Analysis Method ◽  
Social Economic Development

Grounding of research. Tourism is determined as travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organisation (WTO) defines tourists as people “travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes” (UNWTO Technical Manual, 1995).Nowadays tourism is perceived as a mass phenomenon of the contemporary life, penetrating all spheres of it, capable of changing the economic, social and cultural environment and surrounding world. Today the concept of tourism is much wider than the above presented definition. Practically it is a global aggregate of relations and unity of connections and events following the tourist in his/her travel. Research problems. Tourism acts as a social-economic development of the catalyst, so important for the development of this activity. The article also deals with the use of modern technology, the analysis of economic and social indicators.The aim of researcher analyse the functioning of the tourism as an industry of national economy.Research methods.The article employed theoretical analysis, synthesis and secondary statistical analysis method. The work analyzed the statistics of the development of the tourism sector provided by the World Tourism Organization.Conclusions. Tourism combines economic, social, educational, cultural, aesthetic factors. Tourism is subjected to influence from political and economic situation, it depends on such factors as fashion and advertisement, which determine the demand for tourism via impact on population needs, interests, spirit, forming human habits and priorities. The innovations in the field of tourism have a particularly important role for the economic development of the country. Tourism companies in the market economy are increasingly recognizing the need for developing new products and services capable of generating additional economic benefits. The development and accordingly the return on tourism greatly depend on the level of economic development of the country and on the willingness of government to heavily invest in this industry

scholarly journals WAYS OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE POTENTIAL OF STATE IN THE MARINE ECONOMIC COMPLEX: ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 62-68
Author(s):  
Olena Borshchevska ◽  
Eduard Kuznetsov ◽  
Sergiy Stepanov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Electric Power Industry ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Rational Use ◽  
The Impact

At present, issues of assessing the impact of economic activity on the environment as an integral part of the country’s economic development are becoming more and more relevant. Environmental problems of the development of a marine economy complex may restrain the development of the economic potential of the state. Moreover, the dynamic development of the state’s economy is possible only when economic entities adhere to the norms of an ecological nature. In this regard, the problem of assessing the impact on the environment, in particular, in the maritime complex in the projection of the economic component of development, as well as in this sense and the rational use of natural resources, is of paramount importance. The environmental tension is most often due to the placement of powerful chemical and petrochemical industries in the area of the maritime complex. In some areas, the level of environmental pollution is quite high due to the location of large facilities in the electric power industry (thermal and nuclear power plants). The economic component of the environmental impact assessment of the maritime complex is that one and the same natural resource is most often used by the economic entities of several countries. Therefore, the assessment of the impact on the environment and the achievement of a balanced distribution of ecological and economic benefits for the rational use of natural resources, especially in the maritime complex, are today of great relevance. The purpose of the article is to analyse the problems of ecological and economic orientation in the maritime complex and, on the basis of generalization of such problems, to provide recommendations on systematization of measures for the comprehensive rational development of economic relations, taking into account the features of the coastal zone and the marine economic complex. Methodology. Analytical market reviews, materials of periodicals, resources of the Internet are the informational and methodological basis of the investigation. To achieve the goal set, the following general scientific and special methods were used: economic and mathematical methods, structural-logical analysis, analogy, synthesis, comparison and integration, factor analysis. Result. The system of measures of an economic and legal nature, which should be taken into account for successful and rational use of the marine economic complex in economic activity, is substantiated. Problematic aspects and directions of their elimination are determined. The proposed model of the ecological and economic system of the maritime complex acquires a special significance in the context of the supranational task of developing measures for optimizing and rational use of natural resources on a global scale. The directions of the reform of the legal framework are considered. Practical value. The system of measures of economic and legal character and their individual types can be applied for optimization and rational use of marine (water) resources, taking into account the peculiarities of economic development and the state of the marine-economic complex in Ukraine and in other states. Value/originality. Most scientific works are devoted to the consideration of theoretical aspects of ecologicaleconomic systems, namely, the refinement of the essence of this instrument as a form of modern financial and economic dynamics. A part of the work is devoted to the consideration of the common features and national peculiarities of ecological and economic systems in individual countries and regions. The authors consider the issues of elaboration of measures for the optimization of economic activity, which combines the abovementioned aspects with the peculiarities of the formation of ecological-economic systems in the marine faring complex. It is also important to take into account the impact of planned legislative reforms on the development of economic activity in the marine faring complex of Ukraine. The account of the peculiarities of the maritime complex in the framework of the national economy allowed developing directions for its further development.

scholarly journals Pengembangan Ekonomi Lokal Melalui Sektor Pariwisata di Desa Serang, Kecamatan Karangreja, Kabupaten Purbalingga

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Rojaul Huda
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Village Government ◽  
Poor Population

The poor population in Indonesia is still dominated by people living in rural areas reaching 15.15 million or 60.26% of the total national poor population in the first semester of 2019. One of the efforts made to reduce poverty in rural areas is local economic development (LED). Local economic development is a participatory process of the community, local government, and the private sector to increase local competitiveness through available resources with the aim of creating decent jobs and sustainable economic activities. Serang Village, Karangreja Subdistrict, Purbalingga Regency conducts the LED through the tourism sector. This research encourages describing the implementation of the LED through the Serang Village tourism sector. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. Based on this research, it is found that there are six aspects of local economic development in Serang Village through the tourism sector, namely the LED target group through the utilization of local resources, having accessibility and strategic locations, encouraging the development of innovation and collaboration with the community, there is a sustainable agenda in driving economic activity of the local community, village government provides development facilities and cooperation to the community and local businesses in the development of tourism in Serang Village, the last aspect is that tourism in the village of Serang is managed through clear rules and good management.AbstrakPenduduk miskin di Indonesia masih didominasi oleh penduduk yang tinggal di wilayah perdesaan mencapai  15,15 juta atau 60,26  persen dari total jumlah penduduk miskin nasional per semester I tahun 2019. Salah satu upaya yang dilakukan untuk menanggulangi kemiskinan di wilayah perdesaan adalah dengan pengembangan ekonomi lokal (PEL). Pengembangan ekonomi lokal merupakan proses dimana masyarakat, pemerintah lokal, dan pihak swasta bekerjasama menciptakan kondisi ekonomi yang lebih baik dan menciptakan lapangan kerja, dengan tujuan membangun kemampuan perekonomian di tingkat lokal yang berkelanjutan sebagai upaya meningkatkan taraf hidup masyarakat yang lebih baik. Desa Serang, Kecamatan Karangreja, Kabupaten Purbalingga melakukan pengembangan ekonomi lokal melalui sektor pariwisata. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendiskripsikan bagaimana implementasi pengembangan ekonomi lokal melalui sektor parwisiata Desa Serang dilakukan. Artikel ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan jenis deskriptif. Berdasarkan penelitian ini diperoleh fakta bahwa pengembangan ekonomi lokal di Desa Serang melalui sektor pariwisata berjalan dengan baik serta memiliki peran pada peningkatan perekonomian masyarakat. Rekomendasi penelitian ini adalah meningkatkan kerjasama dengan pihak swasta atau investor dari luar desa.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document