Toward Understanding Outbound GCC International Tourism: The Role of Expatriates and Institutional Quality

Faruk Balli, Hassan Ghassan () and Hisham Al-Jeefri

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Abstract: This paper employs the gravity model using panel data analysis techniques to explain the dynamics of tourism outflows from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to high-, middle-, and low-income countries. The results show that, among other known variables, immigrants living in the GCC region have rendered a positive advertising impact on outbound tourism destination decisions in GCC citizens. Apart from the immigrant effect, institutional quality in the destination country is a key determinant of outbound GCC tourism.

Keywords: Bilateral international tourism demand; gravity equation; immigrants; institutional quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F24 F41 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-03, Revised 2017-07
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Published in Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events DOI: 10.1080/19407963.2018.1556671 (2019): pp. 1-10

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