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2. LOCAL DEVELOPMENT BASED ON ATTRACTING VISITORS AND TOURISTS<br />

classified as indirect economic impact (European Task Force on <strong>Culture</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>Development</strong>, 1997)..<br />

- If we concentrate on inputs, things are generally simple to measure, but the<br />

significance that can be accorded the indicator will be weak.<br />

- When we concentrate on outcomes, things are more difficult to measure, but<br />

the indicators are more significant.<br />

Impact analysis thus makes trade-offs between different types of information<br />

(number of visitors or spectators, jobs involved, business turnover, net benefit for<br />

the territory, etc.), <strong>and</strong> the justifying reasons may here be determinant.<br />

To illustrate this approach, we shall look at the analysis of Salamanca when it was<br />

elected “European capital of culture “ in 2002 (Herrero & al, 2004). The events surrounding<br />

this designation constitute a “macrofestival”, in the sense that while the majority of<br />

the cultural programme may involve live performances, a portion will also relate to<br />

historical heritage <strong>and</strong> cultural industries. This impact study was conducted in two stages:<br />

first, an estimate was made of private spending generated by cultural tourism; next,<br />

the overall economic impact was calculated, including private spending on cultural<br />

consumption, public spending on cultural programmes, investment in new facilities,<br />

<strong>and</strong> an estimate of multiplier effects for the national <strong>and</strong> regional economies.<br />

The analysis starts from the traditional methodology of economic impact studies,<br />

which distinguishes between three effects: direct spending (for mounting a cultural<br />

project), indirect effects (tourism), <strong>and</strong> induced effects (as the impact spreads through<br />

the overall economy). Furthermore, it separates spending into two broad categories:<br />

cultural spending related exclusively to setting up the cultural programme, <strong>and</strong> capital<br />

expenditure.<br />

The first is estimated at US$278.8 million, <strong>and</strong> the second at $120.9 million, for<br />

total of around $400 million for direct <strong>and</strong> indirect effects combined.<br />

- The induced effects, defined as all monetary spin-offs to the local, regional <strong>and</strong><br />

national economies from cultural <strong>and</strong> capital spending are calculated using<br />

input-output multipliers (the input-output tables for Castile <strong>and</strong> Leon, 1995).<br />

- The results show that this region receives 69.23% of overall economic spin-offs<br />

($556,135,000), while the rest of Spain receives 30.77% of those spin-offs<br />

($247,189,000). The study also shows that cultural spending has a proportionally<br />

greater impact on the local <strong>and</strong> regional economies than on the rest of the<br />

economy, while capital spending has more impact on the overall national<br />

economy than it does at the regional <strong>and</strong> local level.<br />

60 CULTURE AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT - ISBN 92-64-00990-6 - © <strong>OECD</strong> 2005

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