A General Equilibrium Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Tourism

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This paper studies the economic implications of climate-change-induced variations in tourism demand, using a world CGE model. The model is first re-calibrated at some future years, obtaining hypothetical benchmark equilibria, which are subsequently perturbed by shocks, simulating the effects of climate change. We portray the impact of climate change on tourism by means of two sets of shocks, occurring simultaneously. The first shocks translate predicted variations in tourist flows into changes of consumption preferences for domestically produced goods. The second shocks reallocate income across world regions, simulating the effect of higher or lower tourists' expenditure. Our analysis highlights that variations in tourist flows will affect regional economies in a way that is directly related to the sign and magnitude of flow variations. At a global scale, climate change will ultimately lead to a welfare loss, unevenly spread across regions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 127.2004

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models ; Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism ; Valuation of Environmental Effects ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
• Subject: Climate change ; Computable general equilibrium models ; Tourism ; Klimawandel ; Tourismus ; Allgemeines Gleichgewicht ; Simulation ; Welt

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bigano, Andrea ; Berrittella, Maria ; Roson, Roberto ; Tol, Richard S.J.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
• (where): Milano
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/118005
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