STATE, ECONOMY AND TOURISM - A POWERFULL RELATION

Abstract

The complexity of tourism phenomenon, its social, cultural and economic implications, and the join of its elements needs to be taken into account by the governments, which understood that it can be obtained benefits from these activities. In theory and practice, one of the most important problems is the relation between state and economy. For two hundred years, Economics has been dominated by the controversy related to the economic role of the State, shaping a lot of theories. It is well-known the idea that the central pillars of Economics are Smith, Marx and Keynes. The first described the virtues of the liberal Economy, the second one described the contradictions that determined its fall in and asserted that it had to be replaced be economic planning, and the third one presented the solutions to avoid this fall in by the State intervention, in a managing economy.State; Economy; Tourism.