Meeting externalities: The effects of educational training on support for tourism activities

Beatriz Tovar, David Boto-García and José Francisco Baños Pino

Tourism Economics, 2024, vol. 30, issue 3, 785-805

Abstract: This study evaluates whether college students change their beliefs about the social, economic, and environmental effects of tourism activities after receiving educational training. In particular, our goal is to examine if economic instruction affects their views about the impacts of cruise tourism development. We conduct an experiment with students majoring in tourism enrolled in a compulsory course on tourism and transport at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). We administer a survey before and after the course in three academic years that involve the pre-pandemic and pandemic periods. We find that students become more concerned about the negative impacts of cruise tourism, with significant shifts in their agreement with the environmental externalities and price surges associated with cruise tourism. Furthermore, they become more supportive of the setting of a tourism tax per passenger, but agree less with the idea that governments should economically incentivise the arrival of more ships.

Keywords: Economic impact; tourism externalities; tourism sustainability; educational training (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/13548166231185897

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