Asymmetric relationship between tourist arrivals and employment

Jitendra Sharma and Subrata Kumar Mitra
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Jitendra Sharma: Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, India
Subrata Kumar Mitra: Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, India

Tourism Economics, 2021, vol. 27, issue 5, 952-970

Abstract: This article explores the relationship between the arrival of tourists and its impact on tourism-related employment. Considering the impact of tourist arrival on employment being asymmetric, we have analyzed the relationship using the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag method proposed by Shin et al. The article analyzed how arrivals impact on employment taking Sri Lanka as a reference country and have used annual data of the variables obtained from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority. It is found that for an increase in the tourist arrival by 1000, the tourism-related job employment rises by 83.8. On the contrary, with the decline in tourist arrival by the same number, the corresponding reduction in job employment is 29.8. The relatively lower reduction in employment with the fall of tourist arrival provides relative stability of employment to the tourism workforce and is a socially desirable outcome.

Keywords: asymmetric relationship; employment sustainability; tourist arrival; tourism employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/1354816620910000

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