The Embeddedness of Tourism-related Activity: A Regional Analysis of Sectoral Linkages

• Published in: Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland) Vol. 46; no. 10; pp. 2123 - 2141
• Main Authors: Beynon, Malcolm, Jones, Calvin, Munday, Max
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England Routledge Journal, Taylor & Francis Ltd 01-09-2009; SAGE Publications; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Air transportation; Analysis; Development; Economic analysis; Economic development; Economic sectors; Eigenvectors; Industrial sectors; Local economy; Regions; Social research; Tourism; Transportation services; United Kingdom; Urban development; Value added; Wales; United Kingdom > UK
• ISSN: 0042-0980; 1360-063X
• DOI: 10.1177/0042098009339428

The paper undertakes a linkage analysis on a regional economy, concentrating on tourism-related sectors. Recent improvements in the accounting for tourism activity, through satellite account frameworks, provide information on tourism-related sectors and their transactions with the rest of the economy. Several regions of the UK have highlighted tourism as an important development sector, but often with a less than perfect understanding of how changes in tourism demand affect tourism-related sectors and then how changes in these sectors impact the rest of the economy. The study employs a series of approaches, to construct linkage measures and to explore the regional intensity of the transactions linkages of tourism-related sectors; it also considers the extent to which, in the case study region of Wales, these same sectors might be considered as 'key' in terms of their linkage strength.