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The Impact of Tourism on Employment in Denmark: Different Definitions, Different Results

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  • Christian Hansen
  • Susanne Jensen

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Using primary Danish statistics and a comprehensive Danish input–output table, we estimate that a total of 63 500 persons were employed in Denmark in 1991 as a result of tourism. This includes job creation resulting from tourist stays at destinations in Denmark. Separate calculations are made for different tourist nationalities and for the various types of accommodation involved. Calculations made by the Danish Tourist Board produced a figure of approximately 94 400 tourism-related jobs in Denmark. Recently, The 1995 WTTC Report stated that 290 000 jobs in Denmark in 1991 could be associated with travel and tourism. This figure is based on US primary statistics and a German input–output table. By studying the footnotes, statistics and mathematics in the various reports on tourism employment in Denmark, we are able to explain the discrepancies. They come from understandable and detectable differences in delimitations and definitions of tourism.

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  • Christian Hansen & Susanne Jensen, 1996. "The Impact of Tourism on Employment in Denmark: Different Definitions, Different Results," Tourism Economics, , vol. 2(4), pages 283-302, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:toueco:v:2:y:1996:i:4:p:283-302
    DOI: 10.1177/135481669600200401
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    1. Gabriela Carmen Pascariu & Bogdan-Constantin Ibanescu, 2018. "Determinants and Implications of the Tourism Multiplier Effect in EU Economies. Towards a Core-Periphery Pattern?," The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal, Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania, vol. 20(S12), pages 982-982, November.
    2. Jie Zhang, 2002. "Tourism Impact Analysis for Danish Regions," Tourism Economics, , vol. 8(2), pages 165-188, June.
    3. Dario Bertocchi & Nicola Camatti & Silvio Giove & Jan van der Borg, 2020. "Venice and Overtourism: Simulating Sustainable Development Scenarios through a Tourism Carrying Capacity Model," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-15, January.
    4. Eva Roth & Susanne Jensen, 2003. "Impact of Recreational Fishery on the Formal Danish Economy," Working Papers 48/03, University of Southern Denmark, Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics.

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