I think Dimensions of the space economy, including: imports, exports, income, production, employment, household consumption, population, ... can you give me reference about this?
Hi! You can look at their tourism resources that they have.Then investigate how local communities make use of their potential. Next find statistics to support benefits gained in terms of local income distribution, job creation, sale of local products to tourists, and number of tourists visited their tourism sites, etc.
See Scientific Geography Series / Classics In Regional Science, especially for your topic volumes #1, #2. Available for for download at http://rri.wvu.edu/resources/web-book-rs/classics-in-regional-science/
Also, Thrall, Grant Ian, 2002, Business Geography and New Real Estate Market Analysis, Oxford University Press: London and New York. Especially for your topic see chapter 8 on "Hotel."
You can get the impact of tourism industry development on dimensions of the space economy by the followings.
1. Long time analysis of land use / land cover including built-up structures for commercials and other business
2. Obtaining the answers from the community through interviews using structured questioners (socio-economic variables), depends upon your aims and objectives of the research project.
3. Land scape environmental transition (including transport networks, parks, electricity, buildings for commercial, settlements, professional industries-education, recreations, legal, medical, etc.,)
4. Floating population movements, money flow, business and trade