Beschreibung:
The commercial air transport innovation and its technological evolution, especially after the Second World War, are fundamental factors in the people's movement growth between the nations of the planet. Advances in air transport and income growth have allowed more and more people to realise the dream of getting to know and interacting with cultures from other countries, most times very far from their places of residence. Many studies examine the travel demand evolution more broadly or specifically between locations, which we can characterise as tourist demand. The quest to understand the drivers that move people between different destinations on the planet is a fundamental element of the company's planning and for the public policies formulation. This study contributes to this sense, analysing three socioeconomic factors of the world reality: globalisation, the countries’ economic structure and this structure's dynamics. Using panel data regression analysis methodology and the World Bank's world development indicators, relationships between the international tourism evolution and the mentioned socioeconomic factors are estimated and discussed. Each of the three perspectives analysed shows a strong relationship with the historical demand for tourism. The globalisation indicator revealed a growing positive impact on the level of tourist movement. The country's economic structure indicator showed a significant difference between countries, which suggests the need to examine tourism according to regions concept. Among dynamics indicators, income was the major factor in the tourism indicators variation