Resumen de A total requirements view of a tourism and hospitality market is more accurate than traditional location quotients

J. Reid Cummings, Donald R. Epley

• The traditional use of location quotients to determine the cluster oflocal industries that produce products and services primarily for export is outdated in that it uses employment ratios only. A betterapproach uses the total dollars spent locally. Combined with absolutelevels of employment, this research shows that the tourism andhospitality industry cluster is very different from those selectedtraditionally. Dollars-spent-locally uses data from local input�outputtables and presents a more accurate profile of the interrelationships among tourism and hospitality industries. The authors illustrate this more accurate approach for one area using current cross-sectional industry data.