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Saw this in the Houston Chronicle:
"You might be planning a cruise to Mexico this summer -- Cancun, perhaps, or Tulum. You have a vague guilt complex about the fact that your income is probably quite a bit higher than the average Mexican's. And maybe you wonder: Am I actually doing this country any good?
That's been a complicated question over the years. Tourism has been criticized for exploiting developing countries, with most of the profits accruing to multinational corporations rather than local businesses.
A new study from two researchers at the University of California Berkeley, Ben Faber and Cecile Gaubert looked at the holistic impact of tourist destinations along the Mexican coastline, and found that both international and domestic tourism has added 4.4 percent to the average Mexican household's real income."
Here is a link to the study:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w22300.pdf
"You might be planning a cruise to Mexico this summer -- Cancun, perhaps, or Tulum. You have a vague guilt complex about the fact that your income is probably quite a bit higher than the average Mexican's. And maybe you wonder: Am I actually doing this country any good?
That's been a complicated question over the years. Tourism has been criticized for exploiting developing countries, with most of the profits accruing to multinational corporations rather than local businesses.
A new study from two researchers at the University of California Berkeley, Ben Faber and Cecile Gaubert looked at the holistic impact of tourist destinations along the Mexican coastline, and found that both international and domestic tourism has added 4.4 percent to the average Mexican household's real income."
Here is a link to the study:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w22300.pdf
