As well as income, tourism creates employment. Some jobs are found in travel agencies, tour operators and other intermediaries supplying services in the generating areas, but the bulk of jobs are created in the tourist destinations themselves, ranging from hotel staff to deck-chair attendants, from excursion booking clerks to cleaners in the stately home open to the public. A very large number of these jobs are seasonal so that tourism’s contribution to full-time employment is considerably less than its contribution to “job-hours”. The multiplier which works for income also works for employment. If tourists stay at a destination, jobs are directly created in the tourism industry there. These workers and their families require their own goods, services, education and so on, giving rise to further indirectly created employment in shops, pubs, schools and hospitals.
