Abstract

ORLANDINI GONZALEZ, Ingrid Eliana; PACO JANCO, Pilar Leticia  and  TORRICOS PONCE, Paola Fernanda. Economic growth and the hotel industry an analysis in two heritage cities of southern Bolivia. Investigación y Negocios [online]. 2019, vol.12, n.19, pp.36-45. ISSN 2521-2737.

Abstract The productive activities, of commerce and of services do to the economy of the States and generate economic growth; One of these activities is tourism and within this sector the hotel industry is important. One of the most important tourist circuits in Bolivia is the visit to cities declared World Heritage Sites: Sucre and Potosí, in addition to the extraction of raw materials such as minerals and agriculture, these two cities are based on their urban economy. The proposed, in this article, to explain what is the impact of the economy of the hotel industry on economic growth. To this end, 190 hotel companies have been surveyed and databases have been analyzed from official sources such as the National Institute of Statistics, Funda Empresa and the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Subsequently, the data has been processed in statistical software such as SPSS 22 and Excel. The contrast of the hypothesis indicates that there is a significant relationship between the activity of the hotel industry and economic growth for the two cities taken into account in the analysis.

Keywords : PIB; Hotel industry; economic growth; heritage cities.

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