Tourism as an important impetus to promoting economic growth: A critical review

Li, Kevin X.; Jin, Mengjie; Shi, Wenming

doi:10.1016/j.tmp.2017.10.002

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“…They focused on Beijing City, and reported that the number of inbound tourists from major origin countries would decline by around 2%, if the AQI in Beijing rose by 1%. Given the large contribution of tourism to regional economic development (e.g., [1,[18][19][20]), understanding the extent to which air pollution influences tourism is important. If the impact of air pollution is really large, communities, industrial sectors, and governments should consider clean air as a priority in tourism development strategies and make large collaborative efforts to mitigate pollution.…”

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Evaluating the Impact of Air Pollution on China’s Inbound Tourism: A Gravity Model Approach

Dong

2020

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China’s inbound tourism grew very slowly in recent years. This study modelled China’s inbound tourism based on a gravity model with province-level inbound tourist arrivals data from 13 countries of origin between 2010 and 2016. It was found that air pollution in tourist destinations and origin regions both had significant negative impacts on China’s inbound tourism. On average, if the concentration of particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less (PM 2.5 ) in China and foreign countries increased by 1 μ g/m 3 , inbound tourist arrivals would decline by approximately 1.7% and 3.8%, respectively. The effect of pollution in destination regions is explained by the importance of clean air as a favored characteristic of tourist attractions. The effect of pollution in tourist origin countries is explained by more awareness of and concern about air pollution by potential tourists if they live in more polluted countries. Further analysis showed that the impact of air pollution in destination regions was larger for tourists coming from more polluted and Asian countries, and visiting less polluted and more popular destinations. This study has a clear policy implication: improving air quality can be considered as a straightforward and effective way to promote inbound tourism in China. If air quality in China can be substantially improved in the future, inbound tourist arrivals have the potential to rise by at least tens of millions of person-times.

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Evaluating the Impact of Air Pollution on China’s Inbound Tourism: A Gravity Model Approach

Dong

2020

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“…The dominant industry raises a threat to Macao's economy [11]. Second, since labor is a key determinant of tourism efficiency and productivity [38], the gambling industry of Macao employs the largest percentage of the working population. From 2007 to 2016, the gambling industry employed about 23% to 26% of the working population [8].…”

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Sustainable Development for Small Economy and Diversification from a Dominant Industry: Evidence from Macao

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While the Macao gambling industry has developed prosperously, its rapid development raises a problem of economic dependence on gambling that restricts economic diversification and causes a sustainable issue of non-gambling industries. In recent years, regulating and controlling the appropriate scale of the gambling industry have been regarded as a solution for sustainable economic development. Consequently, it is quite important to give a quantitative scale to the future development of the gambling industry. This study aims to estimate the appropriate scale of the gambling industry under the expectation of the optimal development of moderate economic diversification in Macao. This study employs the method of Measuring Economic Diversification in Hawaii in 2011 to evaluate the levels of diversification of Macao’s economy. A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) efficiency calculated by a bootstrapping model is applied to obtain the operational efficiency of Macao’s gambling industry. A transition probability matrix in three scenarios is predicted by expert interviews and industry interviews. The appropriate scale of Macao’s gambling industry until 2021 is forecasted by Markov chain. The predicted result shows that the growth rate of gambling will not exceed 3% in terms of achieving the goal of optimal developing moderate economic diversification in Macao.

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“…A number of contemporary scientific publications are dedicated to the problems of studying and planning factors that influence tourists' preferences and their trips [2][3][4]. Methods and means of providing tourism business growth in different regions, tourist's safety, ecological problems, etc, are also widely discussed [5][6][7].…”

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Economic and mathematical models of development of the railway tourism

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The authors used a complex of mathematical models meant for the optimal investment of the processes of creation and use of the railway transport infrastructure. The specific features of these models are as follows: long-term period of realization of the infrastructure projects, many participants with special interests, which do not always coincide, a lot of factors of uncertainty connected with the choice of quantities of the calculation parameters, etc. The authors created economic-mathematical models of the discrete optimal planning of the railway tourism operations. This takes into account conditions of risks and cooperation, and allows to determine sets of effective routes which are most profitable ones, provided they meet the established demands. The latter includes routes which meet maximum criteria of the net costs under the conditions of the established system of demands for the activity of the tourism operators.

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Tourism as an important impetus to promoting economic growth: A critical review

Cited by 195 publications

References 98 publications

Evaluating the Impact of Air Pollution on China’s Inbound Tourism: A Gravity Model Approach

Evaluating the Impact of Air Pollution on China’s Inbound Tourism: A Gravity Model Approach

Sustainable Development for Small Economy and Diversification from a Dominant Industry: Evidence from Macao

Economic and mathematical models of development of the railway tourism

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