Tourism's contribution to human development and the reduction of poverty and inequality: Empirical evidence at a regional level in Spain

IF 4.1 3区管理学 Q1 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

International Journal of Tourism Research Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI:10.1002/jtr.2669

Pablo Juan Cárdenas-García, Juan Gabriel Brida, Alejandro Alcalá-Ordóñez, Verónica Segarra

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Abstract

Scientific literature has begun to analyze the capacity of tourism as a development instrument, although until now, it has relied on a country level focus. This innovative work analyzes the relationship between tourism and development at a regional level, establishing the hypothesis that tourism affects different dimensions of development (human development, poverty, and income inequality) and, furthermore, that differences exist at a regional level within the same country. Regional data from Spain are used for the 2004–2021 period, applying the Dumitrescu and Hurlin causality test to analyze the relationships between these variables in global terms while also disaggregating between touristic and non-touristic regions. The results only verify that tourism has a positive effect on improving human development in regions of high tourism intensity. These results suggest the need for tourism policies that are linked to the regional administrative level.

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旅游业对人类发展以及减少贫困和不平等的贡献：西班牙地区层面的经验证据

科学文献已开始分析旅游业作为发展工具的能力，尽管迄今为止，这些文献一直以国家层面为重点。这项创新性工作从地区层面分析了旅游业与发展之间的关系，提出了旅游业影响不同发展层面（人类发展、贫困和收入不平等）的假设，并进一步指出在同一国家的地区层面也存在差异。研究使用了西班牙 2004-2021 年期间的地区数据，运用 Dumitrescu 和 Hurlin 因果检验法分析了这些变量之间的全球关系，同时还对旅游地区和非旅游地区进行了分类。结果只验证了旅游业对改善旅游密集地区的人类发展具有积极作用。这些结果表明，有必要制定与地区行政级别挂钩的旅游政策。

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International Journal of Tourism Research HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Tourism Research promotes and enhances research developments in the field of tourism. The journal provides an international platform for debate and dissemination of research findings whilst also facilitating the discussion of new research areas and techniques. IJTR continues to add a vibrant and exciting channel for those interested in tourism and hospitality research developments. The scope of the journal is international and welcomes research that makes original contributions to theories and methodologies. It continues to publish high quality research papers in any area of tourism, including empirical papers on tourism issues. The journal welcomes submissions based upon both primary research and reviews including papers in areas that may not directly be tourism based but concern a topic that is of interest to researchers in the field of tourism, such as economics, marketing, sociology and statistics. All papers are subject to strict double-blind (or triple-blind) peer review by the international research community.