Tourism and related recreation activities play a significant role in the generation of income / foreign exchange and … provision of employment opportunities. Against this backdrop, this paper aims at ascertaining empirically the impact of tourism … on the West African economy from 2000 – 2004. The relationship is analysed based on a panel data approach. While the …

On average, tourism-specialized countries grow more than others. This fact is inconsistent with economic theory as, in … thus high productivity; (2) large scale. In this paper, we use panel data methods to go further in treating the endogeneity … problem. In general and contrary to previous works, we conclude that tourism, on its own, cannot explain the higher growth …

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 consider the problem of testing for seasonal unit roots in monthly panel data. To this aim, we generalize the … quarterly CHEGY test to the monthly case. This parametric test is contrasted with a new nonparametric test, which is the panel … data set on tourism in Austrian provinces. The power properties of the tests are evaluated in simulation experiments that …

We consider the problem of testing for seasonal unit roots in monthly panel data. To this aim, we generalize the … quarterly CHEGY test to the monthly case. This parametric test is contrasted with a new nonparametric test, which is the panel … data set on tourism in Austrian provinces. The power properties of the tests are evaluated in simulation experiments that …

The mass of investments into infrastructure for tourism in the so-called “New States” (Neue Länder) of the Federal … effects of local public investment into infrastructure for tourism supported by investment grants on the local employment in …

partnership undertook initiatives to stimulate the regional economy by creating a tourism infrastructure. This paper presents a …. In 2004, the regional partnership also applied for the pilot measure to implement the EU Initiative Leader+. The tourism …