title: Sustainable Tourism  &  The Millennium Development Goals: Effecting Positive Change
author: Kelly Bricker
description: Associate Professor, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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  Sustainability 2020, 12, 3243; doi:10.3390/su12083243 
  www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability 
  Article 
  Quantile Dependence in Tourism Demand Time 
  Series: Evidence in the Southern Italy Market 
  Giovanni De Luca * and Monica Rosciano 
  Department of Management and Quantitative Studies, University of Naples Parthenope,  
  80132 Naples, Italy; monica.rosciano@uniparthenope.it 
  * Correspondence: giovanni.deluca@uniparthenope.it 
  Received: 16 March 2020; Accepted: 13 April 2020; Published: 16 April 2020 
  Abstract: Travel and tourism is an important economic activity in most countries around the world. 
  In 2018, international tourist arrivals grew 5% to reach the 1.4 billion mark and at the same time 
  export earnings generated by tourism have grown to USD 1.7 trillion. The rapid growth of the 
  tourism industry has globally attracted the interest of researchers for a long time. The literature has 
  tried to model tourism demand to analyze the effects of different factors and predict the future