Economic impact of health resort enterprises for the host city: case study from Ukraine

Abstract

The paper underlines the importance of economic impact analysis for the formation of institutional foundations of development of health-resort industry as well as for justify the strategic decisions on urban development. Analysis of the results of a questionnaire survey of employees of two health resort establishments of Berdyansk confirms the hypothesis of the authors that the the induced economic impact of health resort’s establishments on the economy of the host is on average more than direct – as a taxation level in the local budget.