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Blessing or Curse? The Rise of Tourism-Led Growth in Europe’s Southern Periphery

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  • Bürgisser, Reto

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Despite being one of the world's major internationally traded services, tourism remains neglected within debates on European integration and growth models. We highlight the rise of tourism-led growth in Southern Europe. We argue that the process of European integration has been a double-edged sword, simultaneously incentivizing and forcing Southern European economies to reap their comparative advantage in tourism. While European integration has created the preconditions for the expansion of intra-European tourism, monetary integration preempts macroeconomic management. Since the Eurozone crisis, internal devaluation and fiscal austerity have suppressed domestic growth drivers, inducing these governments towards an export-led growth strategy. We document the emergence of unprecedented tourism-related current account surpluses in Southern Europe, driven strongly by tourism imports from the EMU-core countries and the UK. Thus, while different types of export-led growth strategies now coexist in the EMU, Southern Europe’s excessive reliance on international tourism for growth comes with severe pitfalls.

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  • Bürgisser, Reto, 2022. "Blessing or Curse? The Rise of Tourism-Led Growth in Europe’s Southern Periphery," SocArXiv qa8cd_v1, Center for Open Science.
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    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/qa8cd_v1
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