We consider the relationship between tourism and economic growth for Latin American countries since 1985 until 1998 …. The analysis proposed is based on a panel data approach and the Arellano-Bond estimator for dynamic panels. We obtain … variables. We show that the tourism sector is adequate for the economic growth of medium or low-income countries, though not …

We analyse the effect of IMF and World Bank policies on the composite index of economic freedom by Gwartney et al …. (2000) as well as its sub-indexes, using a panel of 85 countries observed between 1970 and 1997. With respect to the Bank …, we find that the number of projects has a positive impact on overall economic freedom, while the effect of the amount of …

Using a panel vector autoregressive model this paper investigates the dynamic and endogeneous contribution of tourism … to output based on a sample of 40 African countries for the period 1990 - 2006. Results from the study confirm tourism to … main drivers. Further analysis reveals the existence of a reverse causation from national income to tourism development …

compared across cross-section and panel data estimation for a set of 102 countries over 1980 to 2004. The results strongly …

This paper studies the economic implications of climate-change-induced variations in tourism demand, using a world CGE … subsequently perturbed by shocks, simulating the effects of climate change. We portray the impact of climate change on tourism by … changes of consumption preferences for domestically produced goods. The second shocks reallocate income across world regions …

pay for outbound tourism goes hand in hand with an increasing per capita income in the world. …In this paper we discuss the determinants which contribute to outbound tourism expenditures. The aim is to show whether … capita income and the openness to trade on the tourism expenditures per capita as well as on the tourism expenditure per GDP …

on the economic assessment of two specific climate change impacts: sea-level rise and changes in tourism flows. By using … impact category to the final result. In the case under scrutiny demand shocks induced by changes in tourism flows outweigh …

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 …