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An Assessment of the Impact of Tourism in the Balearic Islands

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  • Clemente Polo

    (Department of Economics and Economic History, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Building B, Bellatera 08193 (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Spain)

  • Elisabeth Valle

    (Department of Applied Economics, University of the Balearic Islands, Building Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Crta de Valldemossa Km 7.5, Palma 07122 (Baleares), Spain)

Abstract

According to the official Institute of Tourist Studies, the Balearic Islands, a Spanish region with just over one million inhabitants, received 9.6 million international arrivals in 2005 out of 55.8 million for the entire country. Although a rather impressive figure, it is 8.2% below the 10.5 million recorded in 1999, which might partially explain why the Balearic Islands has recorded the worst growth performance of all 17 autonomous Spanish regions since 2000. A look at the 1997 regional input–output table confirms the Balearic Islands as a service-oriented economy highly specialized in the production of services for tourists. The main purpose of this paper is to provide the first assessment of the impact of tourism in the Balearic Islands using input–output techniques and several alternative assumptions on endogeneity of final demand components. The paper also estimates, under the same assumptions, the effects on the economy of a 10% fall in tourist flows. Finally, the results are compared with those obtained with a social accounting matrix model.

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  • Clemente Polo & Elisabeth Valle, 2008. "An Assessment of the Impact of Tourism in the Balearic Islands," Tourism Economics, , vol. 14(3), pages 615-630, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:toueco:v:14:y:2008:i:3:p:615-630
    DOI: 10.5367/000000008785633604
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