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Has the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations impacted on tourism flows of member countries?

25 April 2024

Purpose – Using panel data for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) member states, the present study explored the role of RCEP negotiations on tourism development. Design/methodology/approach –Adynamic econometric model, namely the panel ...

Minimising Perceived Travel Risk in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic to Boost Travel and Tourism

12 February 2021

This study empirically confirms expected impact of COVID-19 related perceived travel risk on the likelihood of tourists to visit a destination. It then aims at identifying the key predictors of perceived travel risk in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandem ...

The Immediate Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Tourism in Mauritius

5 December 2020

This study assesses the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourist arrivals for Mauritius. It provides interesting COVID-19 and tourism statistics for Mauritius in the first place, and preliminary analysis of the monthly time series data (tourist ...

Tourism and Economic Growth: A Meta-regression Analysis

27 September 2019

Numerous studies have focused on delineating the relationship between tourism and economic growth. In this article, we present the results of a rigorous meta-regression analysis based on 545 estimates drawn from 113 studies that empirically tested the tou ...

Destination Satisfaction and Revisit Intention of Tourists: Does the Quality of Airport Services Matter?

30 November 2018

services has been so far largely neglected. Researchers have recognized ...

Investigating the impact of climate change on the tourism sector: Evidence from a sample of Island Economies

30 November 2018

Although it is a widely accepted fact that climate change can negatively impact on tourism demand and affect the economies at the socio-economic level, empirical studies on the climate change tourism development nexus has been quite scant, especially for ...

Analysing the impact of tourism foreign direct investment on economic growth: Evidence from a small island developing state

30 November 2018

The present study attempts to address the important question of whether foreign direct investment (FDI) flowing into the tourism sector has served to enhance economic growth in Mauritius for the period 1984–2014. Using a dynamic vector error correction mo ...

Air access liberalisation, marketing promotion and tourism trade

30 November 2018

The objective of the present study is two-fold. Firstly, to assess the impact of air access liberalization on tourism demand for Mauritius and secondly to analyze the dual impact of the interplay between air access liberalization and marketing promotion e ...