TOURISM STUDIES AND INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS: INTRODUCTION TO A SPECIAL ISSUE

摘要

Tourism is increasingly important as a rapidly globalizing industry, which influences economic growth and development in many countries. This importance is recognized by international agencies such as the United Nations Statistics Division, Eurostat, the OECD and UNWTO (the World Tourism Organization). These institutes cooperated on common conceptual frameworks for the design of so-called Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSAs).