Adeola, O, Boso, N orcid.org/0000-0001-7043-4793 and Evans, O (2018) Drivers of international tourism demand in Africa. Business Economics, 53 (1). pp. 25-36. ISSN 0007-666X
Abstract
Despite Africa’s potential for tourism, the continent’s tourism endowments are still largely underdeveloped and underutilized. The identification and enquiry into the drivers of international tourism demand in Africa is key to any effort to understand and explain changes in tourism demand in Africa. This study estimates a Poisson regression model to determine the key drivers of international tourism demand in 44 African countries, employing annual data over the period 1995–2015. The outcomes of the Poisson regression show that taste formation, real exchange rate, infrastructure, political stability and absence of violence, per capita income, FDI, and trade openness are significant drivers of international tourism into Africa. However, travel costs and domestic prices are not significant drivers of the decision to travel to Africa.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © National Association for Business Economics 2017. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Business Economics. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s11369-017-0051-3. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | International tourism demand; Tourism arrivals; Africa; Panel poisson regression |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Marketing Division (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2017 10:53 |
Last Modified: | 06 Sep 2018 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Identification Number: | 10.1057/s11369-017-0051-3 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:119291 |