RT Journal Article
T1 The spatial externalities of tourism activities in poverty reduction
A1 Ponce, Pablo
A1 Aguirre-Padilla, Nathalie
A1 Oliveira, Cristiana
A1 Álvarez García, José
A1 Del Rio Rama, María de la Cruz
K1 5401.04 desarrollo Regional
K1 5312.90 Economía Sectorial: Turismo
K1 5302 Econometría
AB Poverty is one of the main indicators of economic development worldwide, in such a way that one of the Sustainable Development Goals is to eradicate poverty in all its forms worldwide. The objective of this research was to examine the effect of the gross value added (GVA) of tourism on poverty in the 198 contiguous Ecuadorian cantons. The methodology used was the application of a set of spatial econometric models to capture the regional effect of tourism on poverty. Data were obtained from the Central Bank of Ecuador and the National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Under-Employment of the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC). The results show that tourism activities and regional poverty are negatively related; thus, a 1% increase in tourism-related economic activity decreases the regional poverty of the canton itself by 4.31%, and that of neighboring cantons by between 0.7% and 2.4%. The inclusion of the control variables shows that schooling and the mestizo population contribute to reducing the canton’s poverty, since the regions with a high GVA of tourism have high levels of schooling and a mestizo population. Thus, regional poverty increases when the level of schooling increases in neighboring cantons. On the other hand, in cantons with a high Mestizo population, compared to the African-American population, the poverty of the canton and its neighboring regions decreases. Public policy measures which aim at reducing poverty must take into account spatial spills from tourist activity in the cantons.
PB Sustainability
SN 20711050
YR 2020
FD 2020-07-30
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/1697
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/1697
LA eng
NO Sustainability, 12(15): 6138 (2020)
DS Investigo
RD 11-oct-2024