A wavelet analysis for exploring the relationship between economic policy uncertainty and tourist footfalls in the USA

Ritu Singh, Debojyoti Das, R. K. Jana and Aviral Tiwari

Current Issues in Tourism, 2019, vol. 22, issue 15, 1789-1796

Abstract: We attempt to establish the relationship between Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) and international tourist footfalls in the USA. In the first stage, we investigate the influence of country-specific EPU and global EPU on tourist footfalls. Since, these two are overlapping in nature, in the second stage, we study the isolated influence of country-specific EPU on footfalls by eliminating the influence of global EPU and vice versa. We consider a study period spanning over January 1997 to April 2017. To capture the variations in the relationship at different time dimensions, we apply wavelet-based techniques. We observe the following: (a) the impact of policy uncertainty shock has a little immediate impact on tourist footfalls, (b) medium to long-run shocks persist due to occurrence of major undesirable economic events, and (c) the influence of domestic (country-specific) EPU is dominant in comparison to global EPU for the USA.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2018.1445204

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