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Relationship between Tourism Growth and Economic Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 10427

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Prof. Dr. Pablo Juan Cárdenas-García

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Department of Economics, University of Jaen, 23071 Jaén, Spain
Interests: tourism economics; tourism impacts; tourism competitiveness; tax tourism
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The economic literature recognizes tourism as an activity that enables economic growth; in addition to its impact on economic growth (through contribution to GDP, job creation, foreign exchange generation, etc.), most international organizations have begun to argue that tourism growth can influence the economic and cultural progress of society, improving the welfare of the local population.

In this sense, economic growth can be achieved through different economic activities, provided that its expansion is important enough to have a significant impact on the overall growth of the economy. Thus, it has been proven that tourism is a major activity, becoming, in some countries, a cornerstone of business activity. Accordingly, tourism, like any economic activity with the ability to influence the global growth of the economy, should bring about real economic development processes.

This Special Issue invites research papers to discuss and analyze specific problems of tourism growth and economic development. The issue welcomes studies from various disciplines involving broad scientific methods. The authors of research papers focusing on tourism economics can conduct investigations using approaches such as theoretical constructs and models, econometric analysis, comparative studies, and case studies. Studies applying approaches such as these are welcomed in the Special Issue.

 

Prof. Pablo Juan Cárdenas-García

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Prof. Pablo Juan Cárdenas García
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • economic tourism
  • tourism development
  • factors that promote tourism growth
  • impact of tourism on tourism growth
  • economic development
  • factors that promote economic development
  • impact of tourism on economic development
  • tourism competitiveness
  • tourism and poverty
  • tourism taxation
  • tourism and income inequality
  • analysis of data tourism

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Creative and Rural Tourism, Public Policies and Land Use Changes: A Multi-Method Approach towards Regional Sustainable Development in Azores Islands
by Gualter Couto, Rui Alexandre Castanho and Carlos Santos
Sustainability 2023, 15(6), 5152; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su15065152 - 14 Mar 2023
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This research work aims to give an answer to three preliminary research questions: (RQ1) Are the land-use changes the footprint of the regional public policies conducted over a territory? (RQ2) Could rural and creative tourism be the catalyst for the regional sustainable development [...] Read more.
This research work aims to give an answer to three preliminary research questions: (RQ1) Are the land-use changes the footprint of the regional public policies conducted over a territory? (RQ2) Could rural and creative tourism be the catalyst for the regional sustainable development of island territories? (RQ3) Assessing the land-use changes dynamics and trends, is it possible to use new forms of tourism business to develop regional public policies? Through a multi-method approach, this paper examines the possible relationship between land-use changes and new tourism typologies as a potential catalyst for sustainable regional development in island territories, using the Azores Islands and some creative tourism projects as case studies. As some of the results show, a footprint of the regional public policies conducted over a territory can be observed through the land-use changes analysis. In addition rural and creative tourism could catalyze the regional sustainable development of island territories. Full article
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Tourism and Development: The Impact of Sustainability—Comparative Case Analysis
by Pablo Juan Cárdenas-García and Alejandro Alcalá-Ordoñez
Sustainability 2023, 15(2), 1310; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su15021310 - 10 Jan 2023
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In recent years, tourism has established itself as one of the most important economic sectors worldwide. Given the economic importance of this activity, different international organizations have decided to bet on tourism as a development tool. However, the expansion of tourism, on many [...] Read more.
In recent years, tourism has established itself as one of the most important economic sectors worldwide. Given the economic importance of this activity, different international organizations have decided to bet on tourism as a development tool. However, the expansion of tourism, on many occasions, can cause significant environmental deterioration, so it is necessary to analyze the costs and benefits generated by tourism in those territories that host this activity. To deepen our knowledge about the relationship between tourism, environmental sustainability and economic development, the objective of this work is to analyze the relationships that may exist between these three variables, which will allow us to determine if tourism influences economic development, and if there are factors pertaining to environmental sustainability that influence this relationship. In this paper, a comparative analysis of cases is used to analyze how environmental sustainability influences the relationship between tourism and economic development. The analysis carried out shows that tourism, although with some limitations, can be configured as an instrument of economic development. Full article
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Analyzing Pilot Projects of Creative Tourism in an Ultra-Peripheral Region: Which Guidelines Can Be Extracted for Sustainable Regional Development?
by Carlos Santos, Gualter Couto, Isabel Soares de Albergaria, Leonor Sampaio da Silva, Pilar Damião Medeiros, Rosa Maria Neves Simas and Rui Alexandre Castanho
Sustainability 2022, 14(19), 12787; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su141912787 - 07 Oct 2022
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Several authors have shown that some tourism typologies—i.e., rural tourism, nature-based tourism, or creative tourism—have a more predominant role in attaining regional sustainability. In this regard, this paper explores the impacts of five pilot projects of creative tourism on the sustainable development of [...] Read more.
Several authors have shown that some tourism typologies—i.e., rural tourism, nature-based tourism, or creative tourism—have a more predominant role in attaining regional sustainability. In this regard, this paper explores the impacts of five pilot projects of creative tourism on the sustainable development of the insular Autonomous Region of the Azores. Through direct exploratory tools, such as interviews and site analyses, the present study enabled us to provide greater insight into creative tourism projects and their relevance to the development of an ultra-peripheral island region. As part of the CREATOUR AZORES Project, this study is based on five creative tourism pilot projects operating in the Azores, Portugal. As such, it is recommended that the regional government, local authorities, and other relevant actors and players in this region actively support and create strategies to strengthen these projects (and similar initiatives) once they not only contribute to regional development and destination promotion but also promote much-desired sustainable development—once these kinds of tourism, in theory, and practice, counteract the dire effects of mass tourism. Full article
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Exploring the Impact of Air Transport on Economic Growth: New Evidence from Australia
by Avishek Khanal, Mohammad Mafizur Rahman, Rasheda Khanam and Eswaran Velayutham
Sustainability 2022, 14(18), 11351; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su141811351 - 09 Sep 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all sectors of the tourism industry, particularly air transportation. However, air transport remains an important contributor to economic growth globally. Thus, this study examines whether air transport (a proxy for tourism) stimulates economic growth to validate the air-transportation-led [...] Read more.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all sectors of the tourism industry, particularly air transportation. However, air transport remains an important contributor to economic growth globally. Thus, this study examines whether air transport (a proxy for tourism) stimulates economic growth to validate the air-transportation-led growth hypothesis (ALGH) in the Australian context. To conduct the study, we analyse the asymmetric long-run and short-run impacts of the air passengers carried (a proxy for tourism) on the gross domestic product (GDP) in Australia. We use the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) modelling approach on data for Australia from 1971 to 2019. We also examined the effects of selected control variables (i.e., energy consumption, financial development, socialisation, and urbanisation) on economic growth. In both the short and long run, we observed statistically significant asymmetric impacts of air transport on economic growth. The positive shocks in air transport propel the long-term growth of Australia’s economy. Additionally, according to the findings, negative shocks of air transport have a stronger detrimental impact on economic development than positive shocks. Full article
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Effects of Domestic Tourism on Urban-Rural Income Inequality: Evidence from China
by Zhixin Zeng and Xiaojun Wang
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9009; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13169009 - 12 Aug 2021
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Most studies examining the relationship between domestic tourism and urban-rural income inequality have found a positive correlation. However, the causal link between them is difficult to establish due to many potential sources of endogeneity. By including World Heritage Site (henceforth WHS) designation in [...] Read more.
Most studies examining the relationship between domestic tourism and urban-rural income inequality have found a positive correlation. However, the causal link between them is difficult to establish due to many potential sources of endogeneity. By including World Heritage Site (henceforth WHS) designation in the set of instruments, this paper estimates the causal effects of domestic tourism on urban-rural income inequality within 31 China’s provinces from 1998 to 2018. Our results show that developing domestic tourism can reduce urban-rural income inequality by raising income of rural residents more than twice as much as that of urban residents. Specifically, a 10% increase in domestic tourism earnings could increase the average disposable income of urban residents by 0.35% and that of rural residents by 0.94%, resulting in a 0.59% reduction in the urban-rural income ratio. According to channels analysis, domestic tourism enhances the disposable income of rural residents mainly through raising household operating income from agriculture, manufacturing, and services. Full article
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