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Promoting Firms’ Sustainability in Tourism Planning Through Employment

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In Portugal, several municipalities invest in onerous campaigns to at-tract tourists with a view to obtaining positive effects for their local economies. But from the point of view of job creation, do these costs payoff? Thus, this study tests the impact of various independent variables, including the demand of resident tourists and the share of foreign participation on touristic activities on job creation in Northern Portugal in 2009-2017. Based on data from SABI database, it employs a GLS estimator to regress the employment changes on the number of firms, sales, touristic demand from residents, share of foreign tourists, labour productivity and the number of years of firm operations. Results show negative significant impacts of the share of foreign tourists on job creation in small nature tourism firms, and in large cultural and nautical tourism firms. These results sup-port previous findings for Portugal.

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  1. Polytechnique Institute of Bragança, CeBER-University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Eleonora Santos

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  1. Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Institute of Accounting and Admn, Polytechnic of Porto, S. Mamede de Infesta, Portugal

    António Abreu

  3. Institute of Accounting and Admn, Polytechnic of Porto, S. Mamede de Infesta, Portugal

    João Vidal de Carvalho

  4. School of Hospitality and Tourism, Polytechnic of Porto, Vila do Conde, Portugal

    Dália Liberato

  5. Business Administration and Tourism, University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain

    Elisa Alén González

  6. School of Hospitality and Tourism, Polytechnic of Porto, VILA DO CONDE, Portugal

    Pedro Liberato

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Santos, E. (2020). Promoting Firms’ Sustainability in Tourism Planning Through Employment. In: Rocha, Á., Abreu, A., de Carvalho, J., Liberato, D., González, E., Liberato, P. (eds) Advances in Tourism, Technology and Smart Systems. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 171. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2024-2_31

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