Authors: Antonios Maniatis, Antonios Adamopoulos
Title: Tourism growth and economic development An empirical research on Italian economy
Abstract
Maniatis Antonios* and Adamopoulos Antonios**
* Coordinator and Tutor of Subject ‘’PPA523 Law on Culture and Intellectual Property’’ of Open University of Cyprus, Koutifari Street 8, Kalamata, P.O. BOX. 24134, Kalamata, Greece, e-mail: maniatis@dikaio.gr
**Doctor of Economics and Econometrics of Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, 156 Egnatias street, P.O. BOX. 54634, Thessaloniki, Greece, e-mail: adamant@uom.gr
This paper aims at investigating the interrelation between economic development and tourism growth, by making use of a linear regression model as for Italy, endowed with a very long tradition of tourism law, in period 1996-2016. Ordinary least squares method is used in order to examine both the direct and indirect relationships between the examined variables of the model.
Κeywords: C22, economic development, JEL 011, Italian tourism law, tourism growth.
