Research Note: Exploring the Effect of Tourism on Economic Growth in the Spanish Provinces and Autonomous Communities, 1999–2008

Abstract

The authors explore the extent to which tourism contributed to the economic growth of the different Spanish provinces and autonomous communities in the period 1999-2008. The results obtained by panel data analysis show that the elasticity of the provincial productivity with respect to tourism is equal to 0.10 when overnight stays of foreign tourists are taken as the indicator of provincial tourism, and 0.11 when total overnight stays are taken as the indicator. The results also show that the elasticity of the productivity of the autonomous communities with respect to tourism is slightly lower than the elasticity of the provincial productivity.

Relationships between Hotel and Restaurant Electricity Consumption and Tourism in 11 European Union Countries

“…In particular, the nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments' series was used (sample number code tour_occ_ninat). Total overnight stays have been used before as a proxy to measure tourism, such as in the studies by Cortés-Jiménez and Pulina [50] and Gómez-Calero et al [51], and more recently in the study by Pablo-Romero et al [34]. Figures are expressed in overnight stays per inhabitants in natural logs.…”