Abstract

ASUAD-SANEN, Normand Eduardo; CONTRERAS CLEOFAS, Omar; MUJICA ROMO, Armando  and  HUITRON MENDOZA, José Antonio. Tourism GDP estimate by locality, municipality, and federal entity of Mexico in 2018. El trimestre econ [online]. 2024, vol.91, n.361, pp.47-77.  Epub June 21, 2024. ISSN 2448-718X.  https://doi.org/10.20430/ete.v91i361.2071.

Tourism in Mexico is one of the most important economic activities, however, there isn’t any rigorously and systematically estimated data on the tourism gross domestic product (GDP) at the locality, municipality, or federal entity levels, which does not allow obtaining basic information for the construction of regional indicators and have more real knowledge about subnational tourist activity in the country. Hence, the general objectives that we intend to achieve in this research are: 1) to estimate the tourism GDP (GDPT) by states and municipalities for the year 2018 and its spatial distribution at the subnational level; 2) to calculate the tourism GDP by locality based on municipal and state GDPT estimates. Both estimates are carried out through rigorous econometric analyzes to provide certainty about their measurement and present the spatial distribution of tourist activity in the main towns, municipalities, and federal entities of Mexico. The empirical results obtained consist of data for 2018 of the tourism GDP for 828 localities, which participate with 90% of the national tourism GDP (GDPTN), 644 municipalities with 97% of the GDPTN, and 100% of the GDPTN for the 32 states of Mexico.

Keywords : Tourism gross domestic product; econometric estimation; spatial disaggregation; R11; R12; R15..