South Africa has turned towards tourism development to jump-start its weak economy. As tourism is a labour intensive … directly related to tourism. Despite South Africa’s rich and diverse natural and cultural assets, tourism development has been …-haul destination for many large source markets, good accessibility and international openness is key to expand international tourism …

This paper is the first to apply an econometric shift-share model to tourism. The approach allows us to isolate the … does not share the caveats of the conventional shift-share approach. Our application to regional tourism in Austria reveals … host regions. And third, performance appears uncorrelated with tourism intensity of a region. Thus, from a policy and …