Tourism is taken as a driver of urban economic growth. It is claimed in the literature that single-asset cities are more fragile than multi asset cities. It is doubted whether a high urban tourism growth implies an ever stronger specialization and a locked-in process of path dependent urban economic development. In this paper, it is claimed that the growth of tourism, by time, stimulates the growth of related and unrelated industries, generates a diversification in the city and stimulates differentiation in tourism firms which have related variety connections. The aim of the paper is to evaluate evolutionary economic geography literature in a very critical way by combining it with tourism literature with a specific focus on tourism actors in Antalya by analyzing quantitatively both from primary interview data from tourism firms and secondary data on sectoral bases. Findings show an increase in economic diversification and strong association between differentiated tourism firms and related variety connections.
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Publication Date | December 1, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 28 Issue: 2 |