Tourism and The Employment Growth: The Albanian case

Tourism is a service sector which has shown a big-development throughout the world. The tourism's contribution in the country's economy cannot be calculated-exactly because tourism is a mixture of sectors, it embodies a great number of small service sectors. However, in this survey there are theoretical and empirical studies, which once again show that tourism has a positive effect on employment. This study aims to determine the relationship between tourism and the Employment in Albania during the period 1999–2012. Time series have quarterly data and their study is done using the Engle Granger test, Johansen Cointegration and the correction of error. The empiric results show that tourism has had a positive effect on employment, and the co-integration test has demonstrated that there is a strong relationship between the two variables in long run period.