Does tourism contribute significantly to the Greek economy? A multiplier analysis

• Authors: Evangelia Kasimati
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Tourism is one of the growing service sectors in Greece. In 2014, the direct and indirect contribution of the Greek tourism industry to total GDP and employment reached 17.3% and 19.2%, respectively (WTTC, 2015). As the economic importance of the tourism industry is growing among the policymakers and researchers, the objective of this paper is to analyse the contribution of tourism to Greek’s economic growth. We use a trivariate model of real gross domestic product (GDP), international tourist expenditure and a real effective exchange rate, to calculate a tourism multiplier in order to assess the contribution of tourism to the economic growth. Using quarterly data for Greece during the period 2000q1 to 2013q2, we estimated results as a tourism multiplier of 1.21. We also estimated that the tourism industry generated an increase of 1.0% in the Greek GDP for the year 2013.

Keywords

EN

Tourism; Economic growth; Multiplier analysis; Greece

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 55-62

Dates

published

2016-05-01

received

2014-10-20

accepted

2015-02-22

online

2016-05-26

Contributors

author

Evangelia Kasimati

• Economic Analysis & Research Department, Bank of Greece, 21 El. Venizelos Ave, GR 102 50, Athens Greece, Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Athens Institute for Education & Research, Head of Tourism Research Unit, 8 Valaoritou Str, GR 106 71, Athens Greece

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ejthr-2016-0006