Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/337707 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights [ISSN:] 2666-9579 [Volume:] 3 [Issue:] 1 [Article No.:] 100045 [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 1-9
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has developed a list of over 1000 cultural and world heritage sites. We seek to estimate a casual impact on food and accommodations industries that two of these sites influence for their surrounding region. This paper is the first to apply a synthetic control framework to two cultural heritage sites; Poverty Point and the San Antonio Missions. Using food and accommodations data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2008 to 2020, we find a statistically significant positive effect from the accreditation of Poverty Point on tourism establishments in West Carroll Parish, but no similarly significant effect from the San Antonio Missions.
Subjects: 
Difference-in-differences
Economic impact
Synthetic controls
Tourism
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Document Type: 
Article

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