International tourism is increasingly
viewed as one of the best opportunities
for a sustainable economic and social
development of developing countries. There
is also an increasing concern from public
policy makers as to whether mass tourism
coastal resorts can play a catalytic role in the
overall economic development and improve
the real income of their community. In this
article, we present a general example which
explicitly takes into consideration specific
features of some developing countries to
analyze the ways by which an inbound
tourism boom affects this kind of country,
in particular its real income. We define the
conditions under which an inbound tourism
boom makes developing countries residents
worse off.