Tourism as an economic growth factor: A case study for Southern European countries

Tourism Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 791-806

  Proença, Sara ^a   Soukiazis, Elias ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Conditional convergence; Economic growth; Panel data regressions; Southern Europe; Tourism and quality of life

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INCOME; LIVING STANDARD; PANEL DATA; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 57749100085     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000008786440175     Document Type: Article

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