Despite the emphasis placed by growth models on technological progress, recent empirical evidence shows that tourism, a … strategy for growth. This paper focuses on a balanced panel of 72 countries (1980-2005) and confirms that the tourism sector … contribute to growth and that the role of the tourism sector is significantly larger in countries with higher aggregate levels of …

investigate a new channel of efficiency - enhancing information spillovers - tourism flows. The idea is that tourists, in general … tourism destinations, thus transmitting relevant information to the local firms. The latter, in turn, exploit this new … impact of tourism flows on regional efficiency levels together with the positive role played by intangible assets …

This paper analyses the linkage between tourism and crime with particular focus on the distortions generated onto ….e. urban, mountain, marine etc- alters the impact of tourism on crime. Finally, we measure the social cost of crime associated …

The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive literature review on the temporal relationship between tourism and … investigated by assessing the so-called Tourism Led Growth Hypothesis (TLGH). To this aim, various methodological approaches have … from the existing literature, provide evidence that indeed tourism activity drives economic development in all the …

The impact of international tourism flows has been poorly studied within the international trade literature. In this …, it is found that tourism promotes exports and its effect is not negligible, particularly for the EU15 group, being of 3 …

positive relationship between tourism and crime in destinations. When using the level rather than the rate of total crime and … tourist population. Therefore, the main explanation for the impact of tourism on crime seems to be agglomeration effects. …

We analyze the empirical relationship between growth, country size and tourism specialization by using a dataset … covering the period 1980-2003. We find that tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub …-groups considered in our analysis. Tourism appears to be an independent determining factor for growth, and the reason for that is …