Tourism and the Environment

Hamid Beladi, Chi-Chur Chao and Bharat Hazari

No 1, Working Papers from College of Business, University of Texas at San Antonio

Abstract: This paer examines the effects of exogenous and endogenous tourism on welfare and the environment. Despite a gain from the terns-of-trade improvement, and exogenous tourism boom can harm the environment and hence lower welfare of domestic residents. To limit deteriorating the environment, a pollution tax is imposed. In the presence of endogenous tourism, the optimal pollution tax may exceed the marginal damage of pollution. The higher pollution tax can actually attract more tourists and hence improve domestic residents' welfare.

Keywords: Endogenous tourism; the Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F11 Q38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2007-02-20
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