Curing the ‘Beach Disease’: Corruption and the Potential of Tourismled Transformation for Developing Countries and Transitional Economies
The continuous global growth of the tourism sector over the last decades has highlighted itspotential as a developmental strategy for developing countries and transitional economies. Theattractiveness of a tourism-led economic transformation lies in the capability of attracting foreigninvestment and...
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| description | The continuous global growth of the tourism sector over the last decades has highlighted itspotential as a developmental strategy for developing countries and transitional economies. Theattractiveness of a tourism-led economic transformation lies in the capability of attracting foreigninvestment and generating significant income even when subjected to unfavorable infrastructural-,business-, economic- and social-conditions. Empirically, nonetheless, tourism competitiveness,potential and transformational success greatly varies between country-cases. This paper exploresand discusses a number of potential factors (Regulatory framework- and Safety/Security-related)suggested in tourism literature as responsible for such outcome variations. Following thequantitative/statistical analysis of multi-source combined secondary data, there is inadequatequantitative support for the factors suggested. To account for the resulting theoretical (orexplanatory) gap, the role of corruption is proposed as a latent and under-researched factor for abetter understanding, exploration and implementation of tourism-led economic growth. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cf056137581746e58a3fe49dece93cea2022-12-22T01:36:48ZengOvidius University PressOvidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series2393-31272393-31272016-01-01XVI17580Curing the ‘Beach Disease’: Corruption and the Potential of Tourismled Transformation for Developing Countries and Transitional EconomiesAlexis Papathanassis0Bremerhaven University of Applied ScienceThe continuous global growth of the tourism sector over the last decades has highlighted itspotential as a developmental strategy for developing countries and transitional economies. Theattractiveness of a tourism-led economic transformation lies in the capability of attracting foreigninvestment and generating significant income even when subjected to unfavorable infrastructural-,business-, economic- and social-conditions. Empirically, nonetheless, tourism competitiveness,potential and transformational success greatly varies between country-cases. This paper exploresand discusses a number of potential factors (Regulatory framework- and Safety/Security-related)suggested in tourism literature as responsible for such outcome variations. Following thequantitative/statistical analysis of multi-source combined secondary data, there is inadequatequantitative support for the factors suggested. To account for the resulting theoretical (orexplanatory) gap, the role of corruption is proposed as a latent and under-researched factor for abetter understanding, exploration and implementation of tourism-led economic growth.http://stec.univ-ovidius.ro/html/anale/ENG/2016/2016-I-full/Section-II/6.Papathanassis_Alexis.pdfTourismEconomyDevelopmentTransformationCorruption |
| spellingShingle | Alexis Papathanassis Curing the ‘Beach Disease’: Corruption and the Potential of Tourismled Transformation for Developing Countries and Transitional Economies Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series Tourism Economy Development Transformation Corruption |
| title | Curing the ‘Beach Disease’: Corruption and the Potential of Tourismled Transformation for Developing Countries and Transitional Economies |
| title_full | Curing the ‘Beach Disease’: Corruption and the Potential of Tourismled Transformation for Developing Countries and Transitional Economies |
| title_fullStr | Curing the ‘Beach Disease’: Corruption and the Potential of Tourismled Transformation for Developing Countries and Transitional Economies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Curing the ‘Beach Disease’: Corruption and the Potential of Tourismled Transformation for Developing Countries and Transitional Economies |
| title_short | Curing the ‘Beach Disease’: Corruption and the Potential of Tourismled Transformation for Developing Countries and Transitional Economies |
| title_sort | curing the beach disease corruption and the potential of tourismled transformation for developing countries and transitional economies |
| topic | Tourism Economy Development Transformation Corruption |
| url | http://stec.univ-ovidius.ro/html/anale/ENG/2016/2016-I-full/Section-II/6.Papathanassis_Alexis.pdf |
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