The main objective of this paper is to asses the tourism activity in Brazil, and examine, particularly, its capacity to … generate employment. To this aim an input output matrix, that considers the tourism as a set of sectors of the economy, was … computed for the year 2006. This matrix made it possible to examine the main relationships between tourism and the rest of the …

This study is aimed to analyze the tourism contributions to the Brazilian economy by using a tourism input … economy. Among the sectors classified as key ones, six are included into the tourism complex: a) schedule air transportation … programs to promote the development of the tourism in the Brazilian economy. …