Taxing Congestion from Tourism Transport. The Case of Rental Cars in Mallorca (Spain)

Teresa Palmer Tous (), Antoni Riera Font and Jaume Rossello ()

No 2005/02, CRE Working Papers (Documents de treball del CRE) from Centre de Recerca Econòmica (UIB ·"Sa Nostra")

Abstract: Tourism statistics point towards increased tourist mobility in holiday destinations, with a subsequent rise in associated externalities, above all those related with the use of hire cars. This paper therefore suggests that a fixed-rate tax should be levied on vehicle hire in order to reduce congestion externalities and thus achieves more efficient traffic levels. With this purpose in mind, count data models were used to assess alternative ways of modeling the demand function for hire cars in Mallorca (Spain) so that the corrective potential of the proposed tax could then be analyzed. Although the inelasticity that was observed might indicate a low short-run capacity to means of group transport. In the mid-run, this would lead to increased elasticity and, in consequence, to better environmental effectiveness internalize costs, it also represents a high potential for raising revenue that could be used to fund alternative.

Keywords: Externalities; tourism taxes; hire cars; count data models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2005-06, Revised 2005-01
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Published in 'Documents de Treball CRE', June 2005, pages 1-20

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