Carmelo J León
Biographic Data
| ID | 191709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmelo J León |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmelo J |
| FAMILY NAME | León |
| SIGNATURE | LEÓN C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9451-4093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Economic valuation of sustainable tourism policies: A meta-regression analysis of discrete choice experiments
The economic valuation of sustainable policies is necessary for undertaking socially optimal decisions that reduce the adverse impacts of tourism across society and the environment. This paper focuses on the economic valuation of sustainable tourism policies based on the evidence found in the literature of discrete choice experiments (DCE). The methodology involves both a systematic critical literature review and a meta-regression analysis of tou…
The structural relationships between residents’ tourism-phobia, life satisfaction, length of residence and political leaning
A scientometrics review of fifty years of whale-watching tourism research
Satisfaction and sustainability concerns in whale-watching tourism: A user-generated content model
This study examines the satisfaction and sustainability concerns of whale-watching tourists by analysing user-generated content (UGC) on social media. A satisfaction model was developed and estimated utilising an ordered probit analysis with UGC data from TripAdvisor over the last 13 years that includes a specific whale-watching lexicon. The model addresses most of the physical, human, environmental, experiential, and operational aspects of the a…
A longitudinal analysis of the effects of Covid-19 on tourists' health risk perceptions
What drives you to the sea? Animal rights, environmental protection and sensation seeking
Marine environments are magnets for millions of tourists and recreationalists worldwide. This study aims to assess the relationships between individuals’ sensation and risk seeking, concerns about the environment and animal rights, and their interest in engaging in marine recreation during the visit to tourist destinations. Specifically, the paper proposes a five-stage ordinal logistic model and adapts three attitudinal scales - Animal Attitude, …
Are rural residents willing to trade-off higher noise for lower air pollution? Evidence from revealed preferences
Covid-19 effects on travel choices under climate risks
This article analyses the impact of COVID-19 on travel behaviour by measuring changes in the utility of visiting destinations threatened by climate change. A choice experiment was conducted before and after the outbreak. The model was empirically investigated with 6900 individuals interviewed at origin countries as potential travellers to 11 destinations with different levels of damage. Data from the two waves of surveys show a shift in preferenc…
Home-Destination Spillover Effects in Health-Related Spa Activities: The Case of Thermal Baths
The spillover effects of tourists’ behavior from home to destination are relevant to understanding market preferences and to designing targeted promotion actions intended to improve tourists’ wellbeing. Thermal tourism is an important segment of health tourism. The present study addresses the extent to which people who make use of thermal baths at home continue to indulge in the same activity at tourism destinations. The theoretical framework is …
Do tourists value responsible sustainability in whale-watching tourism? Exploring sustainability and consumption preferences
Whale watching has long been marketed as a whale conservation-oriented form of sustainable tourism. However, inappropriate management practices are endangering whales, the marine environment, and the tourist experience. This situation highlights the need for more responsible and sustainable actions to reconcile whale protection with the various demands of tourists. This paper analyses consumers’ preferences for socially responsible and green solu…
Economic impact and conservation potential of shark-diving tourism in the Azores Islands
Shark-diving tourism is an emerging industry in the Azores Islands. However, this industry directly competes with fishing, as both exploiting the same highly migratory shark species. This study quantifies the commercial value of the Azorean shark-diving industry based on a survey of dive tourists and local dive operators and the potential of this industry to further generate funds for implementation of direct conservation actions. The economic co…
Benefit transfer of climate change adaptation policies in island tourist destinations
Benefit transfer is a non-market valuation method that offers a quick and cost effective alternative to costly valuation methods for assessing the economic value of environmental goods and policies in tourism. This paper assesses the validity of the benefits transfer method for the policies to adapt to climate change impacts across tourist destinations. To do so, a discrete choice experiment is designed and conducted simultaneously across seven i…
The role of tour‐operators as intermediaries of tourists' preferences for corporate social responsibility
This paper investigates the potential gap in Tour Operators (TOs) assessments of tourists' preferences for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in tourism. It utilizes discrete choice experiments to assess both tourists and TOs preferences. Results show that TOs understand tourists' average preferences for CSR policies but fail to predict the heterogeneity of preferences. Three market segments were found, with different preferences, socio‐econom…
Challenges and conservation potential of shark-diving tourism in the Macaronesian archipelagos
The impact of terrorist attacks in cities on the relationship between tourists' risk perception, destination image and behavioural intentions
Tourist sustainable behaviour and personal communication
A complex network approach to environmental impact assessment
This article proposes a complex network methodology for the process of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that limits subjectivity and reduces uncertainty by incorporating elements of complex systems theory in the stages of identification and assessment of the significance of environmental impacts. The proposed methodology reduces the sources of uncertainty, which emerge from the use of simplified models that analyse the environment-activity i…
The Role of Stakeholder Involvement in the Governance of Tourist Museums: Evidence of Management Models in the Canary Islands
The responsible management of cultural heritage requires the formation of a competitive tourism product, which in turn requires a high level of collaboration, the need for diversification and differentiation from other tourism sites. The application of governance mechanisms and their effect on the optimization of visitorship in the heritage tourism industry has been understudied. Although there are four models of management in museums, the needs …
El clima y su relación con las actividades, la fidelidad y la satisfacción del turista náutico que visita la Ruta del Sol (Ecuador)
El clima es un atributo del destino capaz de influir en el comportamiento turístico, especialmente en aquellos segmentos motivados por el ocio y la recreación al aire libre. En turismo náutico, el clima es esencial, porque condiciona la realización de la actividad náutica. Frente a la escasez de investigaciones que estudien la relación entre clima y comportamiento náutico, este artículo propone un modelo de regresión logística ordinal, que permit…
Tourists' preferences for congestion, residents' welfare and the ecosystems in a national park
Heterogeneity and emotions in the valuation of non-use damages caused by oil spills
Immigrants' Decision to Stay in the Canary Islands: A Latent Class Approach
Immigrants’ decision to stay in the Canary Islands: a latent class approach, Regional Studies. This paper presents evidence on the socioeconomic and psychological factors that explain international immigrants' decisions to stay in the Canary Islands. The data are modelled using a latent class binary approach that allows two types of migrant to be considered according to their level of probability of staying at the destination. The results show th…
Dynamic hypothetical bias in discrete choice experiments: Evidence from measuring the impact of corporate social responsibility on consumers demand
Correcting for Scale Perception Bias in Measuring Corruption: An Application to Chile and Spain
Determinants of Internal and External Immigration to the Canary Islands
Hernández Alemán A. and León C. J. Determinants of internal and external immigration to the Canary Islands, Regional Studies. This paper analyses the determinants of internal and external immigration to the Canary Islands, within the impacts of the regulatory changes in Spain's immigration policy. It utilizes a structural equations system approach for both internal and external immigration. The results show that immigration policies have had a po…
The impact of terrorism on tourism demand
Correcting for Scale Perception Bias in Measuring Corruption: An Application to Chile and Spain
The impact of terrorist attacks in cities on the relationship between tourists' risk perception, destination image and behavioural intentions
Tourist sustainable behaviour and personal communication
Immigrants' Decision to Stay in the Canary Islands: A Latent Class Approach
Immigrants’ decision to stay in the Canary Islands: a latent class approach, Regional Studies. This paper presents evidence on the socioeconomic and psychological factors that explain international immigrants' decisions to stay in the Canary Islands. The data are modelled using a latent class binary approach that allows two types of migrant to be considered according to their level of probability of staying at the destination. The results show th…
Satisfaction and sustainability concerns in whale-watching tourism: A user-generated content model
This study examines the satisfaction and sustainability concerns of whale-watching tourists by analysing user-generated content (UGC) on social media. A satisfaction model was developed and estimated utilising an ordered probit analysis with UGC data from TripAdvisor over the last 13 years that includes a specific whale-watching lexicon. The model addresses most of the physical, human, environmental, experiential, and operational aspects of the a…
Are rural residents willing to trade-off higher noise for lower air pollution? Evidence from revealed preferences
Covid-19 effects on travel choices under climate risks
This article analyses the impact of COVID-19 on travel behaviour by measuring changes in the utility of visiting destinations threatened by climate change. A choice experiment was conducted before and after the outbreak. The model was empirically investigated with 6900 individuals interviewed at origin countries as potential travellers to 11 destinations with different levels of damage. Data from the two waves of surveys show a shift in preferenc…
Benefit transfer of climate change adaptation policies in island tourist destinations
Benefit transfer is a non-market valuation method that offers a quick and cost effective alternative to costly valuation methods for assessing the economic value of environmental goods and policies in tourism. This paper assesses the validity of the benefits transfer method for the policies to adapt to climate change impacts across tourist destinations. To do so, a discrete choice experiment is designed and conducted simultaneously across seven i…
El clima y su relación con las actividades, la fidelidad y la satisfacción del turista náutico que visita la Ruta del Sol (Ecuador)
El clima es un atributo del destino capaz de influir en el comportamiento turístico, especialmente en aquellos segmentos motivados por el ocio y la recreación al aire libre. En turismo náutico, el clima es esencial, porque condiciona la realización de la actividad náutica. Frente a la escasez de investigaciones que estudien la relación entre clima y comportamiento náutico, este artículo propone un modelo de regresión logística ordinal, que permit…
Determinants of Internal and External Immigration to the Canary Islands
Hernández Alemán A. and León C. J. Determinants of internal and external immigration to the Canary Islands, Regional Studies. This paper analyses the determinants of internal and external immigration to the Canary Islands, within the impacts of the regulatory changes in Spain's immigration policy. It utilizes a structural equations system approach for both internal and external immigration. The results show that immigration policies have had a po…
The effect of medical experience on the economic evaluation of health policies. A discrete choice experiment
Single or double bounded contingent valuation? A Bayesian test
This paper evaluates the performance of asymptotic approximations of the Bayes factor to appraise the relative likelihoods of the bivariate and the restricted double bounded models for contingent valuation. The performance of the Bayes factor test is studied by Monte Carlo simulation showing that it correctly chooses the bivariate model when appropriate, but tends to over predict the double bounded model when the correlation coefficient is not es…
Consumption process and multiple valuation of landscape attributes
Single or double bounded contingent valuation? A Bayesian test
This paper evaluates the performance of asymptotic approximations of the Bayes factor to appraise the relative likelihoods of the bivariate and the restricted double bounded models for contingent valuation. The performance of the Bayes factor test is studied by Monte Carlo simulation showing that it correctly chooses the bivariate model when appropriate, but tends to over predict the double bounded model when the correlation coefficient is not es…
Bayesian Analysis of Interval Data Contingent Valuation Models and Pricing Policies
The general aim of a contingent valuation survey is to elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) of respondents for some (public) commodity without a clear market price. This could be a program to protect some environmental resource or, as in our application, the access to a recreational area of particular interest. In this context, we want to accommodate the possibility of zero WTP and we need to deal with the fact that observations arise as intervals…
The effect of medical experience on the economic evaluation of health policies. A discrete choice experiment
The interactions between natural and physical capitals in the tourist lifecycle model
Do emotions matter? Coherent preferences under anchoring and emotional effects
The impact of terrorism on tourism demand
Understanding the use of non-compensatory decision rules in discrete choice experiments: The role of emotions
Determinants of Internal and External Immigration to the Canary Islands
Hernández Alemán A. and León C. J. Determinants of internal and external immigration to the Canary Islands, Regional Studies. This paper analyses the determinants of internal and external immigration to the Canary Islands, within the impacts of the regulatory changes in Spain's immigration policy. It utilizes a structural equations system approach for both internal and external immigration. The results show that immigration policies have had a po…
Dynamic hypothetical bias in discrete choice experiments: Evidence from measuring the impact of corporate social responsibility on consumers demand
Correcting for Scale Perception Bias in Measuring Corruption: An Application to Chile and Spain
Heterogeneity and emotions in the valuation of non-use damages caused by oil spills
Immigrants' Decision to Stay in the Canary Islands: A Latent Class Approach
Immigrants’ decision to stay in the Canary Islands: a latent class approach, Regional Studies. This paper presents evidence on the socioeconomic and psychological factors that explain international immigrants' decisions to stay in the Canary Islands. The data are modelled using a latent class binary approach that allows two types of migrant to be considered according to their level of probability of staying at the destination. The results show th…
Tourists' preferences for congestion, residents' welfare and the ecosystems in a national park
The Role of Stakeholder Involvement in the Governance of Tourist Museums: Evidence of Management Models in the Canary Islands
The responsible management of cultural heritage requires the formation of a competitive tourism product, which in turn requires a high level of collaboration, the need for diversification and differentiation from other tourism sites. The application of governance mechanisms and their effect on the optimization of visitorship in the heritage tourism industry has been understudied. Although there are four models of management in museums, the needs …
El clima y su relación con las actividades, la fidelidad y la satisfacción del turista náutico que visita la Ruta del Sol (Ecuador)
El clima es un atributo del destino capaz de influir en el comportamiento turístico, especialmente en aquellos segmentos motivados por el ocio y la recreación al aire libre. En turismo náutico, el clima es esencial, porque condiciona la realización de la actividad náutica. Frente a la escasez de investigaciones que estudien la relación entre clima y comportamiento náutico, este artículo propone un modelo de regresión logística ordinal, que permit…
A complex network approach to environmental impact assessment
This article proposes a complex network methodology for the process of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that limits subjectivity and reduces uncertainty by incorporating elements of complex systems theory in the stages of identification and assessment of the significance of environmental impacts. The proposed methodology reduces the sources of uncertainty, which emerge from the use of simplified models that analyse the environment-activity i…
Tourist sustainable behaviour and personal communication
The role of tour‐operators as intermediaries of tourists' preferences for corporate social responsibility
This paper investigates the potential gap in Tour Operators (TOs) assessments of tourists' preferences for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in tourism. It utilizes discrete choice experiments to assess both tourists and TOs preferences. Results show that TOs understand tourists' average preferences for CSR policies but fail to predict the heterogeneity of preferences. Three market segments were found, with different preferences, socio‐econom…
Challenges and conservation potential of shark-diving tourism in the Macaronesian archipelagos
The impact of terrorist attacks in cities on the relationship between tourists' risk perception, destination image and behavioural intentions
Do tourists value responsible sustainability in whale-watching tourism? Exploring sustainability and consumption preferences
Whale watching has long been marketed as a whale conservation-oriented form of sustainable tourism. However, inappropriate management practices are endangering whales, the marine environment, and the tourist experience. This situation highlights the need for more responsible and sustainable actions to reconcile whale protection with the various demands of tourists. This paper analyses consumers’ preferences for socially responsible and green solu…
Economic impact and conservation potential of shark-diving tourism in the Azores Islands
Shark-diving tourism is an emerging industry in the Azores Islands. However, this industry directly competes with fishing, as both exploiting the same highly migratory shark species. This study quantifies the commercial value of the Azorean shark-diving industry based on a survey of dive tourists and local dive operators and the potential of this industry to further generate funds for implementation of direct conservation actions. The economic co…
Benefit transfer of climate change adaptation policies in island tourist destinations
Benefit transfer is a non-market valuation method that offers a quick and cost effective alternative to costly valuation methods for assessing the economic value of environmental goods and policies in tourism. This paper assesses the validity of the benefits transfer method for the policies to adapt to climate change impacts across tourist destinations. To do so, a discrete choice experiment is designed and conducted simultaneously across seven i…
What drives you to the sea? Animal rights, environmental protection and sensation seeking
Marine environments are magnets for millions of tourists and recreationalists worldwide. This study aims to assess the relationships between individuals’ sensation and risk seeking, concerns about the environment and animal rights, and their interest in engaging in marine recreation during the visit to tourist destinations. Specifically, the paper proposes a five-stage ordinal logistic model and adapts three attitudinal scales - Animal Attitude, …
Economics (21 works) · Geography (20 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (17 works) · Tourism (17 works) · Business (16 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (15 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Marketing (9 works)