Regional and Inter-Regional Economic Impacts of Tourism Consumption: Methodology and the Case of Italy

Abstract

This paper implements a multiregional-multisectoral input-output model à la Chenery-Moses for the analysis of the economic role of the travel and tourism industry, in order to describe the consumption habits of tourists coming from different origins and choosing different types of holiday, and to evaluate the sectoral and regional impacts of any kind of demand and of production. The effects which localized expenditure (total and by item) can generate in each regional economic system are discussed, and an analysis is then presented of the economic role of tourism by macro-area with estimations of the ‘centralizing’ and ‘leakage’ effects.