Tourism and high speed rail in Spain: Does the AVE increase local visitors?

Daniel Albalate, Javier Campos and Juan Luis Giménez ()
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Juan Luis Giménez: Faculty of Economics, University of Palmas de Gran Canaria
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No 201527, IREA Working Papers from University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics

Abstract: This paper analyses from an empirical point of view the relationship between the provision of high-speed rail services (HSR) and the evolution of tourism at the local level in Spain. We have built a database of 124 municipalities during the 2005-2012 period to study the effects of the introduction of new HSR corridors on the number of visitors and their total and average stay at several end-line and intermediate cities as compared to similar counterparts not having such an infrastructure. We combine both difference-in-difference and panel data techniques to find that these effects are, in general, extremely weak or just restricted to larger cities, once other determining factors are controlled for.

Keywords: High speed rail, local tourism, difference y difference, panel data. JEL classification:R42; R53; L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2015-12, Revised 2015-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-tre, nep-tur and nep-ure
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