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policies have had significant impacts on Japan's inbound tourism demand in the long run. In the short run, natural disasters …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 …
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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 …
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The pervasive use of tax incentives is costly for the Caribbean countries, yet the benefits seem limited. Better policy coordination at the regional level is needed to help overcome the collective action problems and generate more revenue to support the much-needed infrastructure investment....
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is explained more by a decline in productivity rather than a lack of investment. Second, tourism has been a significant …
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This paper studies the role of airlift supply on the tourism sector in the Caribbean. The paper examines the relative …
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We estimate a variety of exchange rate elasticities of international tourism. We show that, in addition to the … bilateral exchange rate between the tourism origin and destination countries, the exchange rate vis-a-vis the US dollar is also … an important driver of tourism flows and pricing. The effect of US dollar pricing is stronger for tourism destination …
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The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a collapse in international tourism, severely impacting the tourism-dependent economies … in the Asia and Pacific region. Once countries start reopening, tourism diversion effects could accelerate the recovery … of previous shocks in tourism competitor countries on visitor inflows, with a particular focus on tourism …
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This paper develops a gravity model framework to estimate the impact of infectious diseases on bilateral tourism flows … among 38,184 pairs of countries over the period 1995-2017. The results confirm that international tourism is adversely … tourism flows to advanced economies, the magnitude and statistical significance of the impact of infectious diseases are much …
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Tourism has become the main driver of economic growth and employment and the most important source of income in the … ECCU. Preserving and, possibly, enhancing the competitiveness of the tourism product is key for these countries …. Unfortunately, the evidence shows that tourism arrivals to the ECCU have been declining slightly while global demand for tourism is …
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The widespread availability of internet search data is a new source of high-frequency information that can potentially improve the precision of macroeconomic forecasting, especially in areas with data constraints. This paper investigates whether travel-related online search queries enhance...
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