Tourism and development in Tunisia

Poirier, Robert A.

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“…Between 1970 and1995 bed capacity in the country as a whole grew by 127,201, almost five times the capacity in 1970 (Poirier, 1995). By the 1970s, Tunisia was one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in the world (Poirier, 1995), and a clear upward trend in international arrivals can be seen from figure 1, as can the impact of the Jasmine revolution of 2011. The tourism product developed and sold by the Tunisian government has historically been based on coastal mass tourism, which is organised through large-scale package holidays.…”

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“…The government initially experimented with luxury accommodation in the 1960s, before shifting to meet the needs of the dominating market segment of mass tourism (Cortes-Jiminez et al, 2011). Tourism has been heavily concentrated in the area of Hammamet-Nabeul, which in 3 the 1990s held over 70% of hotel bed capacity (Poirier, 1995). This regional domination by the Hammamet-Nabeul area continues today and over 38% of all tourist nights were spent in the Hammamet-Nabeul and Sousse-Kairouan area in 2010 (Office National du Tourisme Tunisien, 2010).…”

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Tunisia: mass tourism in crisis?

Jeffrey¹,

Bleasdale²

2017

Mass Tourism in a Small World

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This chapter evaluates mass tourism development in Tunisia, highlighting the social and economic advances Tunisia has achieved. It also analyses the tourism situation since the 'Jasmine Revolution' of 2011, including the impact of the terrorist attacks of 2015. Finally, the chapter looks towards the future of mass tourism in Tunisia, arguing that while mass tourism has delivered positive advances, if it is to continue to do so the industry must be diversified and adapted to meet new needs.

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Tunisia: mass tourism in crisis?

Jeffrey¹,

Bleasdale²

2017

Mass Tourism in a Small World

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“…Edington & Edington (1986) pointed out that the negative impact of tourism must be effectively controlled by ecosystem protection. Tourism has been blamed for damaging local environments in Russia (Lunkashina et al 1996), Belize (McMinn, 1998), Tunisia (Poirier, 1995), and Honduras (Stonich, 1998). In opposition to government plans that encouraged state-operated nature reserves to engage in commercial operations, Russian scientists criticized ecotourism as commercial exploitation of, and a threat to, the protected areas (Levitin, 1994).…”

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“…The EKC is a widely applied theory developed by Grossman & Krueger (1993;1995) and Roberts & Grimes (1997), based on the work of Nobel Laureate Simon Kuznets (1955). This concept contends that the initial stages of economic growth are accompanied by increasing environmental degradation, but once per capita income exceeds a given threshold, further increments of growth lead to environmental improvement (Beckerman, 1992;Shafik, 1994).…”

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Ecotourism and nature-reserve sustainability in environmentally fragile poor areas: the case of the Ordos Relict Gull Reserve in China

Zhang

Liu

2008

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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“…Consequently, we find it justified to consider the tourism labour market to be competitive (see also Poirier, 1994).…”

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Migration, Unemployment and Net Benefits of Inbound Tourism in a Developing Country

Sahli

Nowak²

2005

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Migration, Unemployment and Net Benefits of Inbound Tourism in a Developing Country SummaryInternational tourism is increasingly viewed as one of the best opportunities for a sustainable economic and social development of developing countries. There is also an increasing concern from public policy makers as to whether mass tourism coastal resorts can play a catalytic role in the overall economic development and improve the real income of their community. In this paper, we present a general equilibrium model which explicitly takes into consideration specific features of some developing countries (e.g. coastal tourism, dual labour market, unemployment, migrations, competition between agriculture and tourism for land) to analyse the ways by which an inbound tourism boom affects this kind of country, in particular its real income. We define the conditions under which an inbound tourism boom makes developing countries residents worse off.

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Tourism and development in Tunisia

Cited by 60 publications

References 8 publications

Tunisia: mass tourism in crisis?

Tunisia: mass tourism in crisis?

Ecotourism and nature-reserve sustainability in environmentally fragile poor areas: the case of the Ordos Relict Gull Reserve in China

Migration, Unemployment and Net Benefits of Inbound Tourism in a Developing Country

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