Unemployment effects of economic crises on hotel and residential tourism destinations: The case of Spain

José Francisco Perles-Ribes, Ana Belén Ramón-Rodríguez, Martín Sevilla-Jiménez and Luis Moreno-Izquierdo
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: José Francisco Perles Ribes

Tourism Management, 2016, vol. 54, issue C, 356-368

Abstract: This paper analyses the effects of economic crises on tourism destinations from a city and regional point of view. The objective is to determine which kind of Spanish “Sun and Beach” tourism destinations, residential or hotel, has better weathered the most recent economic crisis in Spain, linked to the Global Financial Crisis of 2007/8. For this purpose, the authors have analysed the increases in the unemployment rates of a pool of 138 tourist destinations located on the Spanish Mediterranean coastline. The main finding of the paper is that during the crisis, residential destinations experienced a greater destruction of employment than hotel destinations. This result is consistent with previous literature that indicates a better economic performance of the hotel tourism development model.

Keywords: Global Economic and Financial Crisis; Residential destinations; Hotel destinations; Unemployment rates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2015.12.002

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