Tourism Development and Resilience in Italian Municipalities

Giulia Iannone ()
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Giulia Iannone: Gran Sasso Science Institute

No 2024-18, Discussion Paper series in Regional Science & Economic Geography from Gran Sasso Science Institute, Social Sciences

Abstract: Tourism is both a vulnerable and resilient economic sector, yet the impact that this duality may have on the broader economy remains largely underexplored. This study investigates how tourism development influences local economic resilience to shocks, focusing on Italian municipalities during the Covid-19 pandemic. A conceptual framework classifies municipalities into clusters based on tourism reliance and pressure on local resources. Using a multinomial logit model, the analysis reveals that areas with high tourism reliance and pressure were less resistant to initial economic shocks but demonstrated stronger recovery. However, their overall resilience – considering both resistance and recovery – was lower than that of municipalities with more balanced tourism development. These findings highlight the dual role of tourism as both a recovery driver and a vulnerability source, emphasizing the importance of balanced tourism strategies for enhancing local economic resilience.

Keywords: tourism development; resilience; social sequence analysis; overtourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 R11 Z32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2024-12, Revised 2025-03
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