The potencial for economics growth, income, and employment generation by tourism in Distrito Federal - Brazil

Abstract

This paper examines the potential of tourism to stimulate growth of production and generation of income and employment in the Distrito Federal. It uses information from the regionalized Input-Ouptut Matrix, which was computed by the CET-UnB, drawing conclusions from a sectional and regional economic development perspective. Initially, it is stressed some conclusions from the so called strategy of disequilibrated development, as proposed by Hirshman (1961), which explores the potential for sectional development departing from stimulus to specific sectors. Those conclusions direct the description and analysis of the regional Input-Ouptut Matrix, stressing its application to the planning of public policies. The results related to generation of output, employment, and income in the Distrito Federal, due to the increasing in tourism, are analyzed by the sector component of tourism in relation to the average generation of employment, income, and output for the economy of the Distrito Federal as a whole.