Intra-Tourism Trade in Europe

Jean-Jacques Nowak, Sylvain Petit () and Mondher Sahli

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Abstract: 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 during the period 2000–2004. The authors apply the most up-to-date and robust method available in the literature to distinguish vertically and horizontally differentiated products: the Azhar and Elliott method (2006). The results clearly show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, a large proportion of European countries simultaneously exports and imports comparable amounts of tourism services. Moreover, the 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 intraindustry; vertical differentiation; tourism services; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C82 F14 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Published in Tourism Economics 6.18(2013): pp. 1287-1311

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Journal Article: Intra-Tourism Trade in Europe (2012)
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