Variety of economic share of tourism on tropical islands

• Authors: Katarzyna Podhorodecka

Abstracts

EN

The author seeks an answer to the question whether a higher intensity of tourism movement is connected with a higher share of tourism in the economy in selected tropical island territories. With the use of the Spearman correlation coefficient, the existence of the average positive correlation between the intensity of tourism movement and the share of tourism in the economy has been determined. In the second part of paper, the author looks at the conditions which affect the role of tourism in the economy in proportion to the intensity of tourism movement. For this purpose, the Chi-square test and detailed case studies of chosen tropical islands are discussed.

Keywords

EN

tropical islands; economic significance of tourism; tourism intensity

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 14
• Pages: 303-314

Dates

published

2010

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Podhorodecka

• University of Warsaw - Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Institute of Regional and Global Studies

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Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2034526