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closely by economists, who focus on supply,

demand, balance of payments, foreign exchange,

employment, expenditures, development,

multipliers, and other economic

factors. This approach is useful in providing a

framework for analyzing tourism and its

contributions to a country’s economy and

economic development. The disadvantage of the

economic approach is that whereas tourism is an

important economic phenomenon, it has

noneconomic impacts as well. The economic

approach does not usually pay adequate

attention to the environmental, cultural,

psychological, sociological, and anthropological

approaches. Tourism Economics is a journal

utilizing the economic approach.

Sociological Approach

Tourism tends to be a social activity.

Consequently, it has attracted the attention of

sociologists, who have studied the tourism
behavior of individuals and groups of people and

the impact of tourism on society. This approach

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