Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74082 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 148.2005
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
International tourism is increasingly viewed as one of the best opportunities for a sustainable economic and social development of developing countries. There is also an increasing concern from public policy makers as to whether mass tourism coastal resorts can play a catalytic role in the overall economic development and improve the real income of their community. In this paper, we present a general equilibrium model which explicitly takes into consideration specific features of some developing countries (e.g. coastal tourism, dual labour market, unemployment, migrations, competition between agriculture and tourism for land) to analyse the ways by which an inbound tourism boom affects this kind of country, in particular its real income. We define the conditions under which an inbound tourism boom makes developing countries residents worse off.
Subjects: 
Economic impacts
General equilibrium model
Inbound tourism
Migration
Unemployment
Developing countries
JEL: 
F11
Q17
L83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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