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The growth and structure of foreign tourism to Portugal

Dr. Stephen F. Witt (Management Centre, University of Bradford, Emm Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD9 4JL, UK)
Christine A. Martin (Management Centre, University of Bradford, Emm Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD9 4JL, UK)

The Tourist Review

ISSN: 0251-3102

Article publication date: 1 February 1988

116

Abstract

Tourism plays an important role in the Portuguese economy. It employs 3.5 per cent of the working population and is the most rapidly growing economic activity in Portugal (OECD, 1986). Mendonsa (1983, p.218) notes that Portugal ‘is a poor country which has only managed to maintain a favorable balance of trade because of tourism and the remittances of its many emigrants working abroad’. Portuguese tourism is also increasingly successful compared to other destinations; Kendell and de Haast (1986, p. 12) point out that Portugal ‘has one of the fastest growing tourism sectors in Western Europe’.

Citation

Witt, S.F. and Martin, C.A. (1988), "The growth and structure of foreign tourism to Portugal", The Tourist Review, Vol. 43 No. 2, pp. 9-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb057993

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