Although the total impact of marine transportation to local
economy was larger than that of waterfront tourism in 2007, the
unit impact (i.e., multiplier) of waterfront tourism was larger than
that of marine transportation. Every Yuan of final demand for
marine transportation generated 2.0 Yuan of gross output in the
economy. In contrast, every Yuan of final demand for waterfront
tourism generated 3.3 Yuan of gross output. Note that the multipliers
for tourism are larger under the alternative economic
structure 2015b (Table 2), suggesting that the tourism sector has