Migration, Unemployment and Net Benefits of Inbound Tourism in a Developing Country

Mondher Sahli and Jean-Jacques Nowak
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Mondher Sahli: Victoria University of Wellington
Jean-Jacques Nowak: Université Lille I –MEDEE

No 2005.148, Working Papers from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Abstract: International tourism is increasingly viewed as one of the best opportunities for a sustainable economic and social development of developing countries. There is also an increasing concern from public policy makers as to whether mass tourism coastal resorts can play a catalytic role in the overall economic development and improve the real income of their community. In this paper, we present a general equilibrium model which explicitly takes into consideration specific features of some developing countries (e.g. coastal tourism, dual labour market, unemployment, migrations, competition between agriculture and tourism for land) to analyse the ways by which an inbound tourism boom affects this kind of country, in particular its real income. We define the conditions under which an inbound tourism boom makes developing countries residents worse off.

Keywords: Economic impacts; General equilibrium model; Inbound tourism; Migration; Unemployment; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F11 L83 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-12
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