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This chapter focuses on the role played by domestic tourism as a mechanism of interregional transfers of income. In Colombia, domestic tourism flows follow a pattern of origin in the central regions and destination in the periphery. In this sense, this chapter aims to analyze the regional impacts of the consumption patterns of expenditures by Colombian tourists, focusing on the Caribe region, using the interregional input–output model together with data from the Internal Tourism Expenditure Survey (EGIT) 2014–2015. The exercises developed in this chapter capture the contribution of domestic tourism to inclusive economic growth in terms of socioeconomic characteristics of jobs and income generation, both directly and indirectly.
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Other studies are critical of the impacts of tourism on social development on a national and local scale. James (2009, p. 267), for example, argues that, for the Colombian Caribbean islands, “the economic benefits of tourism can be illusory for the population that needs them most and this activity is not realizing its full potential to mitigate unemployment, poverty, and inequality found in the region”.
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Chapter 5 of this book presents the interregional input–output (IRIO) model for Colombia.
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Between August 2014 and July 2015, the Internal Tourism Expenditure Survey was carried out in the 24 main cities and metropolitan areas of the country, with an increase in the coverage of 11 cities compared to the previous measurement, which reflects an increase in sample size to 39,825 households. In our analysis, we account expenditures by the populational weight of the survey. The Guainía department is not considered in the EGIT sample design.
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If shorter distances indicate less travel costs.
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Sanguinet, E., Galvis-Aponte, L.A., Araújo, I.F., Haddad, E.A. (2023). Urban Travelers Go to the Beach: Regional Effects of Domestic Tourism in Colombia. In: Haddad, E.A., Bonet, J., Hewings, G.J.D. (eds) The Colombian Economy and Its Regional Structural Challenges. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22653-3_11
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