A round trip on decentralization in the tourism sector

Calogero Guccio (), Isidoro Mazza (), Anna Mignosa and Ilde Rizzo

Annals of Tourism Research, 2018, vol. 72, issue C, 140-155

Abstract: Although the performance of the tourism sector has been investigated extensively, the effects of institutional governance have largely been unexplored. This study uses a quasi-natural experiment setting owing to differences in tourism policy devolution between special and ordinary statute Italian regions. Using panel data for the period 1995–2010, we first assess the efficiency of each region by a smoothed bootstrapped Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and an order-m frontier estimator. Next, we adopt a difference-in-difference strategy and a fully non-parametric approach to assess whether decentralization affects the performance of regions as tourism destinations. We find that regions affected by decentralization worsened their performance, compared to unaffected regions. The results are robust to different estimators and empirical specifications.

Keywords: Decentralization; Tourism destination; Tourism sector; Regions; Nonparametric frontier; Difference-in-difference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2018.07.007

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