英文摘要 |
While cruise tourism is rapidly booming in Asia Pacific, the transition of the Port of Keelung to develop cruise shipping would improve its competing edge. This paper evaluates this economic impact using input-output model and calculates the effect of change in related production activities on area's gross domestic product. Using the impact-sensitivity quadrant chart to analyze the correlations between a particular industry and the other industries in a city, it is found the wholesale and retail together with transport and warehousing are two of the critical industries with the high dergree of impact and sensitivity to a city development. In addition, the development of these two industries is highly related with the growth of the port's cruise industry. The tourists of Star Cruises to Keelung area directly increase local area's income by NT$ 272 million. Further, an additional NT$ 374 million worth of outputs from the other 19 industries was indirectly generated along with cruise tourism in the Keelung area. |