Alka Gandhi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4278578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alka Gandhi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alka |
| FAMILY NAME | Gandhi |
| SIGNATURE | GANDHI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The long-term rise in overseas travel by Americans, 1820-20001
How and when did the 'great tourist invasion of Europe' come about? Although a few writers have tried to characterize the rise in travel, their descriptions are almost exclusively narrative with colourful opinions and very little quantitative evidence. This is our attempt to fill in the gap. We have linked together several series on overseas travel in order to produce a consistent long-term series covering the period 1820 to 2000, and have also c…
The American Invasion of Europe
Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also of substantial economic importance in the United States, sufficient to warrant the Bureau of Economic Analysis's establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by Americans. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the number of Americans go…
The long-term rise in overseas travel by Americans, 1820-20001
How and when did the 'great tourist invasion of Europe' come about? Although a few writers have tried to characterize the rise in travel, their descriptions are almost exclusively narrative with colourful opinions and very little quantitative evidence. This is our attempt to fill in the gap. We have linked together several series on overseas travel in order to produce a consistent long-term series covering the period 1820 to 2000, and have also c…
The American Invasion of Europe
Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also of substantial economic importance in the United States, sufficient to warrant the Bureau of Economic Analysis's establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by Americans. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the number of Americans go…
The long-term rise in overseas travel by Americans, 1820-20001
How and when did the 'great tourist invasion of Europe' come about? Although a few writers have tried to characterize the rise in travel, their descriptions are almost exclusively narrative with colourful opinions and very little quantitative evidence. This is our attempt to fill in the gap. We have linked together several series on overseas travel in order to produce a consistent long-term series covering the period 1820 to 2000, and have also c…
Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · American History and Culture (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Economic geography (1 work) · Economic history (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Economy (1 work) · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (1 work)