Regional Flows of Domestic Tourism in Spain

Esther Martinez-Garcia

No 3, Working Papers of the Department of Economics, University of Girona from Department of Economics, University of Girona

Abstract: The paper analyses the regional flows of domestic tourism that took place in Spain in year 2000, contributing to the state of knowledge on tourism required by authorities and private firms when faced with decision making, for example, for regional infrastructure planning. Although tourism is one of the main income-generating economic activities in Spain, domestic tourism has received little attention in the literature compared to inbound tourism. The paper uses among others, gravitational model tools and concentration indices, to analyse regional concentration of both domestic demand and supply; tourism flows among regions, and the causes that may explain the observed flows and attractiveness between regions. Among the most remarkable results are the high regional concentration of demand and supply, and the role of population and regional income as explanatory variables. Also remarkable are the attractiveness of own region and neighbour ones, and that domestic tourism may be acting as a regional income redistributing activity

Keywords: Domestic tourism flows; Spain; gravitational models; tourism and regional redistribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-03
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