Determinants of Tourism Arrivals in China

Abstract

The aim of study has to investigate behavior of tourism under the threat of CO2 release in case of China. The research work employed Secondary time-series-data over the time duration 1996-2019. The research work used tourism arrivals as dependent and CO2 emission, GDP growth Rate, tourism expenditure and trade are used as independent variables. The study also applied OLS is applies for the findings. The results of OLS indicate that, positive impact of CO2 emission on tourism arrivals in China. It means that, tourism increase with the increase in CO2 emission. While other variables, like GDPGR, tourism expenditure, and trade are positively increasing the Tourism.