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标题：EU Travel and Tourism Industry - A Cluster Analysis of Impact and Competitiveness
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作者：Bulin, Daniel
期刊名称：Global Economic Observer
印刷版ISSN：2343-9742
出版年度：2014
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：150-162
出版社："Nicolae Titulescu" University of Bucharest, Faculty of Economic Sciences
摘要：The tourism industry has known a sustained growth in recent decades, this sector taking advantage of the capacity to generate added value regardless of the type of capital input. The impact of tourism on the economy is indisputable, but the efficiency and the competitiveness provide a sustainable development of this industry. The EU enlargement, geographical and numerical, provides both - a diversity of tourism destinations and an opportunity for growth, considering widening of single market. This paper aims to assess tourism in the European Union, considering the impact and value of the tourism multiplier effect in economy, respectively efficiency and competitiveness of tourism. This paper proposes a classification of EU countries based on cluster analysis, using K-means algorithm.
关键词：tourism; European Union; cluster analysis; multiplier coefficients; efficiency; competitiveness