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Creating Tourism Improvement Districts to Raise Stable Funding for Destination Marketing and Promotion

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    (University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, University of Hawaii at Manoa)

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Tourism Improvement Districts (TIDs), modeled after the more well-known Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), are increasing rapidly in the U.S. With enabling legislation from state and local governments, TIDs allow hoteliers in a tourist destination to ban together to impose compulsory assessments on nearly all the hotels in the district in order to raise money to fund destination marketing. To date, research on TIDs have come almost exclusively from destination marketing organizations (DMOs), travel associations, TIDs, and consultants with vested interest in the formation and expansion of TIDs. This paper synthesizes information from available reports and attempts to provide a more balanced view of the role of TIDs in destination tourism marketing and promotion.

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  • James Mak, 2016. "Creating Tourism Improvement Districts to Raise Stable Funding for Destination Marketing and Promotion," Working Papers 2016-2, University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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    Keywords

    Tourism improvement district; tourism business improvement district; tourism marketing district;
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    JEL classification:

    • H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
    • H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations

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