Pigliaru, Francesco; Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
We analyze the empirical relationship between growth, country size and tourism specialization by using a dataset …-groups considered in our analysis. Tourism appears to be an independent determining factor for growth, and the reason for that is … covering the period 1980-2003. We find that tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub …