A case study: The impact of low-cost carriers on inbound tourism of Saudi Arabia

Tsui

Journal of Air Transport Management

2019

International visitor arrivals are considered to be a major source of foreign exchange, tourism-related employment and other tourism-related activities. This study used SARIMAX/(E)GARCH volatility models to forecast visitor arrivals by air transport to New Zealand from its eight key tourist source markets the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US)) and control macroeconomic factors together with global and regional structural changes. The empirical models reveal that the macroeconomic factors contributed at various levels to different markets, and the models we provided made accurate and reliable forecasts for visitor arrivals by air transport from all studied markets. The results from the markets for Germany, Japan, South Korea and the UK showed that significantly negative tourism demand shocks increased the volatility of tourism arrivals, more than positive tourism demand shocks of equal magnitude. Accordingly, the findings of this study will allow policy-makers in the New Zealand tourism sector and other stakeholders (e.g. airline management) to better understand the impacts on the volatility of visitor arrivals to New Zealand.

Section: Recent Developments In Tourism Forecasting Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modelling the volatility of international visitor arrivals to New Zealand

Tsui

Journal of Air Transport Management

2019

“…in the inbound tourism market (foreigners, Hongkonger tourists, Macanese tourists, and Taiwanese tourists) of China. We combined elasticity differences of various motivations, which are caused by different variables such as traffic conditions [51,52], consumer price index (CPI) [53], resource endowments, destination image [54,55], climate environment, industrial structure, and infrastructure [56] to explore the market potential development model and path that suits the unbalanced distribution of inbound tourist flow in provinces and autonomous regions. Finally, we propose countermeasures and suggestions that are more practical.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Spatial Distribution, Influencing Factors, and Development Path of Inbound Tourism in China—An Empirical Analysis of Market Segments Based on Travel Motivation

et al. 2020

According to China’s tourism statistics, the inbound tourism market is composed of eight types of travel motivations (sightseeing, leisure, business meeting (business-m), visiting relatives and friends (visiting-rf), shopping, religious worship (religious-w), culture and sports (culture-s), and health care (health-c)), and the spatial distribution of each type of travel motivation is significantly different. Four inbound sub-markets (foreigners, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) were selected as our research object. Through empirical analysis of the variable elasticity of eight different inbound motive market segments, we found that the sensitivities (elasticity) of the influencing factors (traffic conditions (traffic-c), destination image (destination-i), industry structure (industry-s), infrastructure, consumer price index (CPI), resource endowment (resource-e), and dressing index (ICL)) are different. Therefore, investment options in the target market can have differential treatment based on the rate of marginal return on investment. In accordance with the characteristics of different market segments, we suggest more feasible development paths and countermeasures, providing a decision-making basis for the accurate development of the inbound tourism market.

“…The significance of Jeddah city as one of the main ports of Saudi Arabia in the west coast that has a very rich commercial history and act as a main point for tourists, especially for Muslims who consider it as a main hub that is located between the main two religious cities of Makkah and Madinah, makes Jeddah a target in research and development (Alsumairi & Hong Tsui, 2017;Calder, 2018;Getz & Page, 2016;Jafari & Scott, 2014;Zamani-Farahani & Eid, 2016). This global interest motivated the authors to contribute in the field by proposing a sight guidance mobile application to the top attractions of Jeddah that would give the tourists the most of their visit experience.…”

Section: The Current Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is It the Time to Propose a Million Dollar Tourist Guide Application in Saudi Arabia? A Case of Jeddah City

Junaid¹,

Fakieh²

2019

JCSIT

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the potential of investing in a comprehensive e-tourism mobile application in Saudi Arabia that would improve the tourism experience for local and international visitors to Saudi Arabia. It took the city of Jeddah as a case to explore this need. The paper analysed four current applications to explore the gap that is required to be addressed. After that, an online structured survey was conducted with 70 responses to examine whether the local market is requiring such a solution to propose or not. The findings showed that even the locals are finding some difficulties when using the current solutions. The value of this study is to trigger the giant local and international players to consider proposing a comprehensive mobile application to get most of the travel experience and to generate a considerable source of income.