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The Economic Structure of World Tourism
The economic development of world regions has been linked
increasingly to tourism development and particularly to the volume
of tourist arrivals. International tourism is a form of trade that
represents exports as tourist arrivals. Particular countries have been
more or less successful in developing tourism exports and imports.
It has been assumed sometimes that most world regional
international tourism flows from the developed to the underdeveloped
world and forms a process of foreign exchange income
from developed to underdeveloped economies. This paper examines
the question of which countries are linked economically in world
tourism and, more importantly, analyses the structure of this linkage
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