[eng] The tourism industry has been defined as a key sector for the development of the Small Island
Developing States (SIDS). These economies are characterized by their vulnerability in terms of
poverty and environment, thus the optimization of the tourism activity is essential to guarantee the
sustainability of those regions.
The Dutch Disease is one of the negative effects that the tourism activity may return to the
destinations. In this project, this issue is broadly analyzed focusing on clarify the concept and its
framework from the literature review. The empirical analysis shows not conclusive results in terms
of Dutch Disease symptoms on tourist specialized SIDS. However, these results are not surprised
as the empirical analysis is a marginal work due to the lack of data (just to demonstrate the
techniques uses among the Master course).
In addition, this project analyses cases with policies successfully applied in other economic sectors
to avoid the Dutch Disease. Following this, the application of those policies considering the tourism
industry specifications may contribute to prevent the tourism Dutch Disease in the future.
Therefore, the main contributions of this project are the clarification of the concept (which is little
confused on the literature) and the application of success policies to the Tourism Dutch Disease
framework.