International tourism as a source of income generation in Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Campina, Ana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10284/11130
• topic: Tourism; Development; GVA; GDP; Balance of payments

A brief consultation of UNESCO's "World Heritage List" (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list) shows us that Portugal currently has 17 (seventeen) sites classified as UNESCO World Heritage, allowing us to highlight the "Historic Centre of Oporto", since 1996, or the "Alto Douro Wine Region", since 2001, as two regions of the country that are interconnected by "Port Wine". The classification given by UNESCO to several Portuguese regions as "UNESCO World Heritage" has boosted Portugal as an international tourism destination. This fact has multiple implications in the dynamics of income generation by Portugal, namely in terms of Gross Value Added - GVA, Gross Domestic Product - GDP, balance of international transactions with tourism trips to and from Portugal. Obviously, this analysis can be made under such a multiplicity of parameters, however all of them are demonstrative of the financial growth generated by international tourism that seeks Portugal as a destination for the most varied types of tourism. We intend with this study to analyze the income generated in Portugal by international tourism, both at the domestic and international market levels, both from the perspective of the economic development generated by the increasing number of tourists coming to Portugal and motivating the increase of companies dedicated to tourism-related activities, as in the increasing employability generated to satisfy the demand that tourism generates in those companies. As we will have the opportunity to present through the data, tourism has been a driving factor for economic activity in Portugal and, consequently, an increasing factor for the well-being of residents in the country.