Tourism productivity: incentives and obstacles to fostering growth

Stefania Lionetti

Quaderni della facoltà di Scienze economiche dell'Università di Lugano from USI Università della Svizzera italiana

Abstract: This paper intends firstly to estimate tourism productivity in 208 countries in the years 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2004. Secondly, it analyzes if the differential of productivity across countries could be due to some structural characteristics of the countries themselves. The study uses a stochastic production frontier approach and a technical efficiency model to analyze the determinants of efficiency across countries. Private capital and labour result to be more influential than public capital on the number of arrivals. The results suggest that the tertiary school enrolment, the level of communication technologies, the country openness to international trade all significantly contribute to efficiency.

Keywords: Tourism productivity; Economic growth; Labor; Public capital; Private capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 L83 O10 O40 O50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2010-07
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Published in Tourism Analysis, Vol 14 no 6

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