“…Generally, and in line with their findings, most panel data applications in tourism continue to focus on either the determinants of tourism demand or the relationship between tourism and economic growth (Yang, 2012;Zhang and Gao, 2016;Du et al 2016;Bilen et al 2017;Paramati et al 2017;Saha et al 2017;Wu and Wu, 2019). In addition, over the last decade, the tourism literature (and similarly the hotel literature) has experienced an increased number of applications of dynamic panel models (Garín-Mun, 2006;Sequeira and Maçãs Nunes, 2008;Rey et al, 2011;Seetanah, 2011;Yang, 2012;Assaf et al, 2015;Kim et al, 2019;Woo et al, 2019). Apart from the many advantages in estimation that dynamic models introduce over static models (e.g.…”