A TSA based input–output assessment of the economic impact of tourism on the Italian economy: an empirical application

Abstract This paper analyses the economic impact of tourism on the Italian economy through an integrated empirical application of Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA) and Input–Output (IO) analysis. Rather than proposing a wholly new methodological framework, the study refines and applies established TSA-based IO integration techniques to the Italian case using official ISTAT data. Tourism is constructed as a composite sector by weighting economic branches according to TSA tourism coefficients and e