Special Issue "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: 30 September 2022.

Special Issue Editor

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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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

Guest Editor

 

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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Effects of Domestic Tourism on Urban-Rural Income Inequality: Evidence from China
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9009; https://doi.org/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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