The paper presents a methodology for measuring the contribution of tourism to an economy's growth, which is tested with data for Cyprus, Greece and Spain. We use the growth of real GDP per capita as a measure of economic growth and disaggregate it into economic growth generated by tourism and...

Tourism is one of the most important factors in the productivity of the Greek economy with significant multiplier effects on the country's economic activity. This study tests for the existence and direction of causality between output growth and tourism expenditure using a trivariate model with...