Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2020.1860110
Mapping post crises the European job growth in travel agencies and tour operator reservation services
Adriana Grigorescu
orcid.org/0000-0003-4212-6974
Cristina Lincaru
orcid.org/0000-0001-6596-1820
Speranta Pirciog
Razvan-Ion Chitescu
Sažetak
World Tourism Organisation, declares the Tour Operators as tourism engine of strategically importance to support jobs and inclusive growth in all regions. Tour operators emerges following the
2008 crises, as a global job engine. Its atypical profile of highest
human capital concentrator in tourism, attract and retain talents,
works digital with a high-intensity information use. Is a rapid
adopter of technological innovation, generate high value added
in highly competitive global markets.
We look in this paper to understand why employment is growing
or declining in a regional tourism tour operator sector during
2008–2018, in some EU28 regions? We use Exploratory Spatial
Data Analysis to map the indicator ‘tour operator’s employment
growth’ components decomposed by the Shift Share Analysis
Method. Analysed Eurostat data for 266 regions (281 regions)
indicates that for the average regional tour operators employment growth heterogeneity is driven almost at half by region-specific factors. The main contributions are: identifying this indicator
as appropriate to be a core one in OECD (2013) tourism competitiveness framework & redefine tour operator sector as a core sector of tourism in the Global model of tourism of Harrison.
Ključne riječi
Advantaged regions; jobs growth; knowledge intensive activities; travel & tourism
Hrčak ID:
301466
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2021.
Posjeta: 127 *