The Impact of Hurricane Strikes on Tourist Arrivals in the Caribbean

Charley Granvorka and Eric Strobl ()
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Charley Granvorka: CEREGMIA, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Pointe-à -Pitre, Guadeloupe

Tourism Economics, 2013, vol. 19, issue 6, 1401-1409

Abstract: The authors quantify the impact of hurricane strikes on the tourism industry in the Caribbean. To this end they first derive a hurricane destruction index that allows them to calculate the actual wind speed experienced at any locality relative to the hurricane eye of a passing or land falling hurricane. They then employ this hurricane index in a cross-country panel data context to estimate its impact on country-level tourist numbers. The results suggest that an average hurricane strike causes tourism arrivals to be about 2% lower than they would have been had no strike occurred.

Keywords: hurricanes; tourist arrivals; Caribbean (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.5367/te.2013.0238

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