INTRA-TOURISM TRADE IN EUROPE

Jean-Jacques Nowak (), Sylvain Petit () and Mondher Sahli
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Jean-Jacques Nowak: EQUIPPE - Economie Quantitative, Intégration, Politiques Publiques et Econométrie - Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies - Université de Lille, Sciences Humaines et Sociales - PRES Université Lille Nord de France - Université de Lille, Droit et Santé
Mondher Sahli: Victoria University of Wellington

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Abstract: In contrast with the stereotypical image of one-way flows going from a few source countries to many host countries, simultaneous exports and imports between two countries appears a plausible phenomenon in tourism. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to our understanding of the empirics of trade in tourism services by studying bilateral intra-tourism trade for a sample of 14 member states of the European Union and by using the most up-to-date and robust method available in the literature to distinguish vertically and horizontally differentiated tourism services: the Azhar and Elliott method (2006). Our results clearly show that a large proportion of European countries simultaneously export and import comparable amounts of tourism services. Moreover, the large predominance of vertical differentiation in these intra-tourism flows suggests that international specialization is taking place in Europe within the tourism sector itself, along the spectrum of quality.

Keywords: Bilateral tourism flows; two-way trade; vertical intra-industry; vertical differentiation; quality; services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Tourism Economics, 2012, 18 (6), pp.1287-1311. ⟨10.5367/te.2012.0168⟩

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Working Paper: Intra-Tourism Trade in Europe (2013)
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DOI: 10.5367/te.2012.0168

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