Air Transport Economic Footprint in Remote Tourist Regions

Dimitrios Dimitriou

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Abstract: Air transport development is on the top of the agenda for governments, authorities and stakeholders especially for economies heavily depending on tourism, where air transport provides connectivity to national and international markets. Therefore, air transport is recognised as a key driver towards income generation, social stability, sustainable business development and economy enlargement. This chapter deals with the estimation of footprint of air transport sector to regional development. By reviewing the economic assessment methodologies, the pros and cons are highlighted, and the input-output computational modelling framework is presented. The analysis includes numerical applications and case studies in Mediterranean region, highlighting results that could be compared with other cases or business sectors. Conventional wisdom is to present the economic footprint definition methodology to estimate the wider economic effects and key results from applications in tourist destinations, providing the framework for similar applications and highlighting key messages to decision-makers.

Keywords: air transport; economic contribution; tourist destination development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.71597

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