The economic impact of tourism in the Seychelles

The paper describes the results of a detailed study to analyze the impact made by 1991 tourism expenditure on incomes, employment, public sector revenue and the balance payments in the Seychelles. Details of the methodology and data sources are provided and the results and policy implications are analyzed. These tourism impacts, found to vary by visitors' countries of origin, provide useful policy and marketing implications, although this variation was found to be related almost entirely to the different magnitudes of expenditure than to variations in the size of the multiplier by country of residence.