1. Revisiting Tourism Regional Economic Impact: Accounting for Secondary Household Employment.
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Hughes, David W. and Shields, Martin
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TOURISM , *EMPLOYMENT , *REGIONAL economics , *ECONOMIC impact , *HOUSEHOLDS , *INCOME inequality - Abstract
Many argue that tourism development is beneficial for local economies, partly because of spillover effects. Others hold that tourism jobs are lower paying, often seasonal, and can generate a host of social ills with earned income concentrated in low-income households. A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of a Pennsylvania region is used to test the impacts of tourism businesses supported by the Progress Fund, a regional Community Development Financial Institution, on household income distribution by incorporating secondary and primary employment based income. Analysis indicates that tourism-oriented activity has relatively large contributions to lower and upper as opposed to middle income households. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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