Offshoring of services as a competitive strategy in the tourism industry

Begoña Fuster, Adelaida Lillo-Bañuls and Carmen Martínez-Mora
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Begoña Fuster: University of Alicante, Spain
Adelaida Lillo-Bañuls: University of Alicante, Spain
Carmen Martínez-Mora: University of Alicante, Spain

Tourism Economics, 2018, vol. 24, issue 8, 963-979

Abstract: The offshoring of services has steadily expanded in recent years and acquired growing importance in certain tourism subsectors. The present study analyses for the first time the offshoring indices and the trend seen in tourism services, based on input–output data (Spanish National Accounts) during the 2000–2007 expansive period. A distinction is made between offshoring associated with international fragmentation of production and offshoring due to a shift from domestic to foreign suppliers. The results point to a relocation of intermediate services to foreign countries in certain tourism subsectors (including travel agencies and air and maritime transport), involving both the international fragmentation of production and a substitution of the source of supply.

Keywords: input–output; inter-sectoral; intra-sectoral; offshoring; tourism services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/1354816618785536

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