Implications of a long-term increase in oil prices for tourism

Susanne Becken and James Lennox

Tourism Management, 2012, vol. 33, issue 1, 133-142

Abstract: It is expected that global oil prices will increase in the future. Assessing the overall economic impacts on tourism is difficult, as oil price rises will be concomitant with global changes in other commodity prices, exchange rates, and incomes. A general equilibrium perspective is therefore presented in this paper. The model couples a global general equilibrium model with a purpose-built CGE model of New Zealand, which focuses on describing tourism supply and demand in some detail. The results indicate a decrease in real gross national disposable income of 1.7% for a doubling of oil price and a 9% reduction in the real value of tourism exports. As a result of segment-specific price increases and differing income and exchange rate effects and elasticities, the reduction in demand for tourism in New Zealand by 18 segments differs substantially. The greatest reduction in demand is observed for tourists from the United Kingdom.

Keywords: Oil prices; Computable general equilibrium model; Tourism demand; Market segments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.02.012

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