Perceived pollution and inbound tourism for Shanghai: a panel VAR approach

Xu Xu and Markum Reed

Current Issues in Tourism, 2019, vol. 22, issue 5, 601-614

Abstract: Although there exists sizeable literature studying the impact of tourists’ risk perceptions, less attention has been devoted to studying the difference between the impact of measured and perceived risks. We apply a panel vector autoregression (PVAR) to a dataset of inbound tourism in Shanghai, China to study the dynamic relationship between pollution and tourism. Particularly, we distinguish between measured pollution level and perceived pollution (measured by Google Trends search data) to test which one has the larger impact on tourists’ decisions. Our results show that pollution (measured or perceived) can be a powerful deterrent to potential international tourists.

Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13683500.2018.1504898 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rcitxx:v:22:y:2019:i:5:p:601-614

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rcit20

DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2018.1504898

Access Statistics for this article

Current Issues in Tourism is currently edited by Jennifer Tunstall

More articles in Current Issues in Tourism from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().