COMPORTAMENTO ANTE A CRISE DA VARIABLE EMPREGO NO SECTOR TURÍSTICO: ANÁLISE COMPARATIVA ENTRE ESPAÑA E FRANCIA

This paper focuses on analyzing how the economic crisis has affected the tourism employment in France and Spain, two of the main tourist powers, and if this variable has presented a similar behavior before and during the crisis. The main results show the greatest influence on the generation of touri...

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Main Authors: Mercedes Jiménez García, Antonio Rafael Peña Sánchez, José Ruiz Chico
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 2015-01-01
Series:Revista Galega de Economía
Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39142718005
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Summary:This paper focuses on analyzing how the economic crisis has affected the tourism employment in France and Spain, two of the main tourist powers, and if this variable has presented a similar behavior before and during the crisis. The main results show the greatest influence on the generation of tourism employment of foreign tourist arrivals in Spain, compared to the level of wealth, in the French case; divergence in regional tourism employment during the crisis in Spain and in France has continued regional convergence in past years; and finally, variations in the components of employment growth in major tourist regions, Catalonia and the Île-de-France, during the crisis.
ISSN:1132-2799