Tourism was one of the fastest-growing sectors before the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for about 10 percent of global … countries where the carbon footprint of tourism constitute substantial share of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. This study … empirically investigates the impact of tourism on CO2 emissions in a relatively homogenous panel of 15 Caribbean countries over …

threat to vulnerable countries that are highly dependent on a weather-sensitive sector like tourism. Using a novel … multidimensional index, this study investigates the long-term impact of climate change vulnerability on international tourism in a … statistically and economically significant negative effect on international tourism revenues across the region. As extreme weather …

This paper studies the role of airlift supply on the tourism sector in the Caribbean. The paper examines the relative …

The Caribbean share of the global tourism market has been declining. This study examines what is driving tourism flows …. It estimates the determinants of tourism and explores variations based on sample differences, and also constructs a … static nominal price comparison index. The paper finds that: (i) tourism arrivals and expenditure are sensitive to both price …

Belize's tourism sector has witnessed impressive growth in recent years with overnight tourist arrivals registering … double digit annual growth rates since 2016. To guide the development of the tourism sector from 2012 to 2030, the government … endorsed a National Sustainable Tourism Master Plan in 2011, setting various initiatives and targets for the immediate and …

The paper estimates the impact of macroeconomic supply- and demand-side determinants of tourism, one of the largest … dataset comprising the full universe of bilateral tourism flows spanning over a decade. The results show that the gravity … model explains tourism flows better than goods trade for equivalent specifications. The elasticity of tourism with respect …

In this paper, we review developments in Japanese inbound tourism and investigate the main determinants of its rapid … growth prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model with data on 34 tourism … source markets from 1996Q1 to 2018Q4, we find that not only tourist income and tourism-related relative prices, also visa …