Is tourism an opportunity for lagging countries in the elusive quest for growth (Easterly, 2002)? Recent empirical … evidence suggests that the answer is a cautious yes. Aggregate cross-country data show that tourism specialization is likely to … fundamental determinants of economic growth (Acemoglu et al., 2001) and ask whether previous positive results of tourism on growth …

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good … option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 tourism countries within a sample of … that the tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub-groups considered in our analysis (OECD, Oil …

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good … option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample … documented that the tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub-groups considered in our analysis (OECD …

Chapter 1. The Impact of Tourism and Renewable Energy Use over Economic Growth in Top 10 Tourism Destinations … -- Chapter 2. The Possible Influence of the Tourism Sector on Climate Change in The US. Chapter 3. Tourism Sector and … Environmental Quality: Evidence from Top 20 Tourist Destinations -- Chapter 4. The Effects of Tourism, Economic Growth and Renewable …