sectors. France, Italy and Spain are models of growth and development through tourism, which is possible due to their cultural …The paper is an analysis based on statistical indicators for three European economies with highly developed tourism … tourism sector, to adapt themselves to their clients' needs and to offer diversified high quality products …

In a recent work, Ivanov and Webster (2007) present a methodology for measuring the contribution of tourism to economic … growth and apply this methodology to the cases of Cyprus, Greece and Spain. The method uses the growth of real GDP per capita … as a measure of economic growth and disaggregates it into economic growth generated by tourism and economic growth …