“Winners and Losers in the Tourism Industry along the Transition Process: Evidence from South and North Med countries”

Samy, MohamedTawfik Halim, YasserSalman Abdou, Doaa M.Artal-Tur, Andrés2020-01-142020-01-142017-01https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.11514.08646https://t.ly/OdlYDTourism is the backbone for many Mediterranean (MED) countries, providing a pivotal source of foreign currencies, attracting investments, absorbing labour force and sharing in the countries development. Tourism is also a sensitive industry based on security and safety issues when attracting tourists from all over the world. In 2015, the Mediterranean region was the first world tourism destination with more than 250 million people in arrivals and 200,000 million dollar in receipts, due to the presence of the leading North shore destinations (France, Spain, Greece and Italy) and South-East shore countries (Egypt, Turkey and Tunisia) (UNWTO, 2016).en-US“Winners and Losers in the Tourism Industry along the Transition Process: Evidence from South and North Med countries”Articlehttps://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.11514.08646