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 Co-integration 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.