tourism and long-term economic growth. These studies have employed a variety of methodologies, models such as VAR, VECM, ARDL … Granger causality. This work shows that in the cases reviewed there is strong empirical evidence for the hypothesis of tourism …. Additionally, the study shows that the values of the elasticity of economic growth from tourism are significant different between …

This paper studies the relationships between tourism and economic growth through a dynamic model showing how the time … preference affect the investment in a economic sector based on natural resources as tourism. Assuming extreme values, it is …

tourist, trade and economic growth. Although tourism is one of the major components in the trade of services, and it has been … certified by large number of literatures on the strong correlation between tourism industry and economic development, yet not …-relationship between economic development, total trade (import and export) and number of tourist arrival for Malaysia and her major tourism …

Many studies have shown the importance of tourism industry in enhancing trade performance and economic development …. This study examines the hypothesis of ‘economic-driven’ tourism growth in Malaysia by using econometric modelling. To … generate the empirical analysis, this study used data from 1980-2007 to analyze the economic-driven tourism growth by using …

Tourism and related recreation activities play a significant role in the generation of income / foreign exchange and … provision of employment opportunities. Against this backdrop, this paper aims at ascertaining empirically the impact of tourism … variables, it recommends that the role of tourism cannot be over-emphasized in the sustainable economic development in West …