Tourism and Exports as a means of Growth

Cortés-Jiménez, Isabel, Manuela Pulina (), Carme Riera () and Manuel Artís ()
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Cortés-Jiménez, Isabel: Christel DeHaan Tourism and Travel Research Institute, Nottingham University Business School
Carme Riera: Faculty of Economics, University of Barcelona

No 200910, IREA Working Papers from University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics

Abstract: This study expands existing research by considering both exports and tourism as potential influencing factors for economic growth. While trade of goods has been proven as a means of growth for countries, inbound tourism as non-traditional exports, has been scarcely examined in the literature. Using data for Italy and Spain over the period 1954-2000 and 1964-2000 respectively, both exports of goods and tourism exports are included in the same model. Standard cointegration and Granger causality techniques are applied. The main results reveal the significance of both exports and tourism towards long-term growth with some peculiarities for each country.

Keywords: Tourism; ELG Hypothesis; TLG Hypothesis; Trade; Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009-05, Revised 2009-05

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