The potential of job and income criation of tourism in Brazil

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to quantify the tourism sector in Brazil, and to examine its capacity to generate income and employment. To this aim, we build an input-output matrix for the year 2006 that explicitly takes into consideration the main relationships between the tourism sector and the rest of the economy. After computing forward and backward linkages of the tourism sector, we analyze the sector’s impact on national income and employment, and compare it with the average potential for generating income and employment in the Brazilian economy.