, and tourism. Additionally, government financed health and educational services have increased rapidly. However, the Qatari …

Tourism is traditionally seen as a labour intensive industry, which employs large numbers of labour with relatively low … levels of human capital. Tourism employment encompasses employment in such diverse sectors as accommodation, catering … tourism are associated with wide range of occupations with diversity in human capital requirements. The success of tourist …

Tourism is indeed one of the economic activities with most significant potential to generate future growth and … employment in the EU. In its narrow definition, tourism currently contributes some 4% to EU GDP, varying from about 2% in several … new Member States and 12% in Malta. Its indirect contribution to GDP creation is much higher - tourism indirectly …

The present paper investigates whether tourism specialization is a viable strategy for development. We estimate … standard growth equations augmented with a variable measuring tourism specialization using instrumental variables techniques … for a large cross-section of countries for the period 1980–2002. We introduce an instrument for tourism based on the …

The tourism industry is one of Europe’s leading employers, and for many regions highly dependent on tourists’ spending …, innovation is the difference between growth and stagnation. Thus, at a regional level, tourism may function as a driving force of … geographical concentration abusively denominated of clusters. Most of the studies within the tourism industry identify clusters …

This paper deals with the relationship between international trade and tourism. We focus on the effect that German … tourism to Spain has on German imports of Spanish wine. Due to the different properties of the series under analysis, which … display different orders of integration, a long memory regression model is used, where tourism is supposed to be exogenous …

This paper deals with the relationship between international trade and tourism. We focus on the effect that German … tourism to Spain has on German imports of Spanish wine. Due to the different properties of the series under analysis, which … display different orders of integration, a long memory regression model is used, where tourism is supposed to be exogenous …

This paper analyzes the links between agriculture and tourism. A contingent valuation study assesses tourist …'s willingness to pay (WTP) for agro-tourism and agriculture's positive environmental services and related positive externalities … according to farming systems. The study argues that a well developed agro-tourism industry would result in a market mechanism …