TOURISM AND SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTREPRISES IMPACT ON THE EMPLOYMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA AND IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF OHRID.

Tourism is the world's largest industry and makes a major contribution to the economies of most developed and developing countries. Tourism generates income from consumption of goods and services by tourists as well as taxes on businesses in the tourism industry, provides employment in services related to tourism, but also creates jobs in the tertiary sector; also, tourism generates growth of primary and secondary sectors of the industry as a result of multiplicative effects of tourism spending. Since tourism sector is labor absorbing sector, it is relatively more effective in creating jobs than other sectors. Tourists expenditure provides direct or indirect employment opportunities in this sector. On the other hand, the data shows that Macedonian enterprises are micro, small or medium-sized. The aim of this paper is to point out the tourism and small and medium-sized enterprises impact on employment in the Republic of Macedonia and in Municipality of Ohrid. For this purpose, in the paper will be used the method of linear regression, the correlation coefficient and the coefficient of determination to determine the strength and the direction of the relationship between the tourist arrivals and the employees in the SMEs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]