This article studies the returns to education in the Argentinian tourism sector considering tourism specialisation. With data from the Permanent Household and Hotel Occupancy Surveys, we make use of Mincer equations to understand the relation between wages and education. For that, we take into account three different types of agglomerates: Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), agglomerates more specialised in tourism (AT) and agglomerates less specialised in tourism (ALT). We find that, for tourism workers, there is a penalty in returns to education, which differs according to the type of agglomerate. These negative returns are partially mitigated by tourism specialisation. In CABA, the most developed and specialised destination, there is almost no penalty. In the case of AT, the mitigation is greater than in ALT. Consequently, this specialisation positions AT in the tourism development path leading to the improvement of labour conditions. There should therefore be an interaction between tourism and education, and it is also imperative to generate incentives and partnerships for the improvement of the sector’s training and labour conditions.

本文研究了考虑到旅游专业化的阿根廷旅游部门的教育回报。根据来自永久住户和酒店入住率调查的数据，我们利用 Mincer 方程来了解工资与教育之间的关系。为此，我们考虑了三种不同类型的集群：布宜诺斯艾利斯自治市 (CABA)、更专业的旅游集群 (AT) 和不太专业的旅游集群 (ALT)。我们发现，对于旅游从业者而言，教育回报存在惩罚，其因聚集地类型而异。旅游专业化部分缓解了这些负回报。在CABA这个最发达、最专业的目的地，几乎没有惩罚。在 AT 的情况下，缓解大于 ALT。最后，这种专业化将 AT 定位在导致改善劳动条件的旅游发展道路上。因此，旅游和教育之间应该有互动，还必须建立激励机制和伙伴关系，以改善该部门的培训和劳动条件。