. These fluctuations in travel around the robust, long term upward trend are the focus of this paper. We first identify those … fluctuations in the raw data and then try to explain the pattern of overseas travel in a quantitative way. As we show, despite the … impact of a myriad of episodic events, the fluctuations in travel can be explained to a large extent by changes in the direct …

's establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by … as mass tourism. We document this rise by compiling a long term series on overseas travel, and describe the changes in …Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also …

Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …

, we show the distributional effects of mass tourism depend on this heterogeneity: following rent increases due to growing …