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Abstract: At the beginning of this century, travel and tourism industry is considered the world's most dynamic sector and at the same time, the most important generator of income and jobs. In present it is established that the world economy will be driven by three service industries: information technology, telecommunications and tourism. Also, tourism plays an important role in the whole world besides its potential economic and employment work, also because of its social and environmental implications.
Keywords: services, tourism, GDP, tourism industry, touristic services, growth.
Introduction
Services represent a major component of modern economic system, their place and their importance is growing and the entire economic and social development is marked by the third sector of the economy.
Services do not have a clear definition, but most economists regard them as a utility system, were the beneficiary buys or use not a product, but a certain utility, which gives them certain advantages or rewards in most cases as a material and for satisfaction of personal and social needs. Although in present services have an important role in the economy of any state, they did not have the same status from the beginning. For a long time, services have been ignored and considered unproductive by many experts in the field (for example A. Smith, D. Ricardo, S. Mill, Say, Marx). For many specialists, services such as transport, trade, banks were considered "intermediaries" useful to the extent that facilitate travel and purchase goods without being considered to create any value. New economic theories reconsider the role of services in economic development, revising the outlook on growth, thus some countries have begun to focus on the service sector. For information on the world economy that, the more a country has a higher level of development, the tertiary sector, that includes the services, has the most significant part of the total workforce1.
It is very well known that tourism is a strategic economic activity for any state and its importance in national economies is growing worldwide. Being constituted by a wide range of products and destinations and involves both the public and private sectors, tourism has great potential for contributing to several of the major objectives of countries, such as economic growth, sustainable development, employment labor and...