In this paper, we examine the impact of destination risk and currency valuation on the U.S. tourism-growth nexus using … the recently developed nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag cointegration technique. Tourism development is proxied by … causality. Positive shocks in tourism development directly impact growth, while negative shocks in GDP have a negative causal …

We estimate exchange rate elasticities of international tourism. We show that, in addition to the bilateral exchange … rate, the exchange rate between the tourism origin country vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar is an important driver of tourism … flows, indicating a strong role of U.S. dollar pricing. The U.S. dollar exchange rate is more important for tourism …