three levels of competitiveness: the country, the region and the tourism destination. Consequently, it draws attention to …. Section 4 analyses the possibilities of extending the competitiveness concept to tourism destinations. Next, the paper …

Using a large administrative matched employer-employee dataset we analyse the gender wage gap in the Portuguese tourism … labour market. As background, employment and pay in the tourism industry is thoroughly characterized. Using the Oaxaca … workers in tourism. Our estimate of the coefficient of discrimination in the tourism industry (8.4 percent) puts it well below …

isolated from mass markets. With these characteristics, to define only the priority to tourism is clearly insufficient for …: the lagging regions, which are trying to converge with the more developed ones based on tourism, cannot only rely on a …

The tourism industry is one of Europe’s leading employers, and for many regions highly dependent on tourists’ spending …, innovation is the difference between growth and stagnation. Thus, at a regional level, tourism may function as a driving force of … geographical concentration abusively denominated of clusters. Most of the studies within the tourism industry identify clusters …