Impact of Tourism on Economic Development

Todays, the economic effects of tourism in the international field are well-known and the different countries in the world consider this fact as one of the main revenue producer factor and they have established most of their economic programs including employment and improvement of payment balance status and marketing accordingly. Therefore, tourism as one of the economic active section can use the labor factor more than the other factors and cause the employment level to be improved since the extent of investment for creating a job in the field of tourism services in comparison with the other industries is fewer. Since most of the tourism services cannot be presented by the technology, the manpower employment is required. Hence, employment creation ground is provided by tourism development in different places and the unemployment rate is decreased. In fact, the present study examines the impact of tourism on the economic development for clarifying the importance of this industry in the countries’ economy. The results of estimation show the positive and meaningful relationship of tourism on national gross production as an index for economic growth and development.

tourism, economic development, national gross production