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High Speed Rail and Tourism: Empirical evidence from Spain

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This paper evaluates how changes in the provision of high-speed rail (HSR) services affect tourism outcomes in Spain, a tourist country with the newest and longest HSR network in Europe. To do so it employs an empirical strategy based on the differences-in-differences panel data method with double fixed effects. Data are provided by Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE) and cover 50 provinces over a 15-year time span (1998-2013). Our results provide mixed evidence about the impact of HSR accessibility on tourist outcomes. On the one hand, we find that air traffic is negatively affected by HSR and air traffic is a strong predictor of tourist arrivals. This suggests a negative indirect effect of HSR on tourist outcomes. ...

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2016.01.009

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Trens d'alta velocitat, Turisme, Empirisme

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High speed trains, Tourism, Empiricism

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ALBALATE, Daniel and FAGEDA, Xavier. High Speed Rail and Tourism: Empirical evidence from Spain. Transportation Research Part A: General. 2016. Vol. 85, num. March, pags. 174-185. ISSN 0191-2607. [consulted: 13 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/107607

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