Determinants influencing inbound arrivals to Africa

Armand Viljoen, Andrea Saayman and Melville Saayman
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Armand Viljoen: North-West University, South Africa
Melville Saayman: North-West University, South Africa

Tourism Economics, 2019, vol. 25, issue 6, 856-883

Abstract: The goal of this research was to investigate the determinants that influence foreign tourism arrivals to the African continent, firstly as a collective and secondly in different regions, with the aim to foster a greater understanding of how African countries and regions can grow their tourism economies. Using static and dynamic panel estimators, two key findings were identified from this research: (1) tourism to the continent is influenced by income in developed countries, prices, telecommunication infrastructure and geographical factors as well as conservation efforts and (2) the regions in Africa do not all react the same to changes in these factors.

Keywords: Africa; bias-corrected least square dummy variable; generalized method of moments; panel data; tourism demand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/1354816618809840

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