THE CONTRIBUTION OF TOURISM IN NATIONAL ECONOMIES: EVIDENCE OF GREECE
Journal Title: European Journal of Business and Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 11
Abstract
Greece constitutes a coastal country with a lot of geomorphologic, climatic, cultural and historic peculiarities favoring the development of many aspects of tourism. Within this framework, this article examines what are the effects of tourism in Greece and how determinative these effects are, by applying a macroscopic analysis on empirical data for the estimation of the contribution of tourism in the Greek Economy. The available data regard records of the Balance of Payments in Greece and of the major components of the Balance of the Invisible Revenues, where a measurable aspect of tourism, the Travel or Tourism Exchange, is included. At the time period of the available data (2000-2012) two events of the recent Greek history are distinguished as the most significant (the Olympic Games in the year 2004 and the economic crisis initiated in the year 2009) and their impact on the diachronic evolution in the tourism is discussed. Under an overall assessment, the analysis illustrated that tourism is a sector of the Greek economy, which is described by a significant resilience, but it seems that it has not yet been submitted to an effective developmental plan exploiting the endogenous tourism dynamics of the country, suggesting currently a promising investment of “low risk†for the economic growth of country and the exit of the economic crisis.
Authors and Affiliations
Olga Kalantzi| Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos, Volos, 38 334, Greece, Dimitrios Tsiotas| Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos, Volos, 38 334, Greece Corresponding author, Serafeim Polyzos| Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos, Volos, 38 334, Greece
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