Sources of growth and competitiveness of local tourist production systems: an application to Italy (1991–2001)

Capone, Francesco; Boix, Rafael

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“…In other contributions (Capone & Boix, 2008), specialization indexes (location quotients) are applied to the economic activities of the European Commission Model, in order to give a first account of the Italian tourist industry. A similar study (Bull & Church, 1994) analyses the employment for the hotel and catering industry in the UK using the LLS, with particular attention to its temporal evolution during the 1980s.…”

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“…A vast literature on theories of economic development and growth has been produced in the last decades (Glaeser et al, 1992;Henderson et al, 1995;Forni & Paba, 2002;Rosenthal & Strange, 2004). However, only a few contributions took into account the transition of the economy from manufacture to services (Paci & Usai, 1999;Deidda et al, 2002;Capone & Boix, 2008). The contribution of this paper is to test this kind of approach to industrial growth specifically to service activities and to evaluate its applicability for the Italian tourism industry.…”

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“…In particular, upon considering the NACE economic activities "Hotels and restaurants", a highly significant geographical relationship is seen between the growth of a local system (in this specific sector) and the neighbouring ones. Capone and Boix (2008) analyse the growth of the taxonomy of tourist local systems in Italy for a decade, examining the municipalities and the networks of municipalities inside LLSs. Their results confirm that higher levels of growth are based on localization economies in addition to the specialization of neighbourhood tourist systems.…”

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Spatial Spillovers and Employment Dynamics in Local Tourist Systems in Italy (1991–2001)

Lazzeretti

Capone

2009

European Planning Studies

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Tourism has been an important main industry in the world economy for many decades. While its importance is recognized, the study of the reasons why some tourist destinations expand and grow faster than others as well as the main factors affecting these dynamics is underdeveloped. The aim of this paper is to analyse the factors affecting the long-period occupational dynamics of the Italian local tourist system, taking into consideration the existence of spatial spillovers. For instance, with other considerations being equal, tourist systems that are close to localities with a high growth rate in fact tend to be more developed. The opposite is true for localities with low-growth neighbouring systems. This paper therefore provides an interesting perspective on the development of tourism-dependent regions, in light of tourism being one of the most important economic sectors and yet the least explored within a regional development framework.

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2009

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“…The Suzhou Tourism Master Plan (2009-2020 has addressed this issue, and summarised the strategy as 'One Core, One Belt, Three Districts'. Many scholars hold the view that spatial agglomeration and the clustering of destinations could benefit regional tourism growth and related industries (Smith, 1994;Malmberg and Maskell, 2002;Capone and Boix, 2008;Lazzeretti and Capone, 2009). It is believed that the location-specific tourism resources would create synergies between neighbouring tourist attractions, thereby enhancing local accessibility, improving the interaction of touristrelated activities, and sharing costs for infrastructure (Cole, 2009;Yang and Fik, 2014).…”

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“…Marrocu and Paci (2013) used an augmented gravity model including spatial variables to analyze tourism flows between NUTS 3 regions (provinces) in Italy. In a smaller scale (municipal level, in Italy), Capone and Boix (2008) analyzed the spatial dynamics related to the sources of tourism competitiveness, while Lazzeretti and Capone (2009) focused on labor markets in the tourism sector. Also focused on the labor market spatial dynamics, Chhetri et al (2008) modeled the spatial drivers of tourism employment within a specific Australian region.…”

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A spatial analysis on the determinants of tourism performance in Japanese Prefectures

Romão

Saito

2017

Asia-Pac J Reg Sci

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Assuming tourism as a place-oriented activity where tourist flows often cross regional borders, local and global indicators of spatial autocorrelation can be useful tools in order to identify and to explain different patterns of regional tourism dynamics and their determinants. These techniques recently became widely used in applied economic studies, as a result of their useful insights to understand spatial phenomena and benefiting from the existence of geo-referenced data and adequate software tools. This tendency is also observed in the tourism sector in the last few years. In this work, an exploratory spatial analysis and a spatial econometric model are applied to the case of Japanese Prefectures, leading to the identification of the specific spatial aspects prevailing in Japanese regional tourism dynamics. Spatial heterogeneity and agglomeration processes are identified, with a view on policy and managerial recommendations, offering a contribution to explore potential synergies arising from inter-regional cooperation in crucial aspects of tourism development. The results reveal the existence of such spatial effects, reflecting the importance for tourism of central areas of Japan, while revealing that competition effects among Japanese Prefectures prevail over positive regional spinoffs identified in other countries. It was also possible to observe that regions where tourism plays a more prominent role in terms of its importance within regional employment do not present a relatively high performance in terms of economic impact and benefits. The results suggest that a more balanced regional economic structure and higher levels of education of the work force contribute for improvements in tourism value added. Finally, the important role of foreign tourism boosting regional tourism performance is revealed.

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Sources of growth and competitiveness of local tourist production systems: an application to Italy (1991–2001)

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