Managing Value-at-Risk in Daily Tourist Tax Revenues for the Maldives

Michael McAleer, Riaz Shareef and Bernardo da Veiga

No 11, DEA Working Papers from Universitat de les Illes Balears, Departament d'Economía Aplicada

Abstract: International tourism is the principal economic activity for Small Island Tourism Economies (SITEs). There is a strongly predictable component of international tourism, specifically the government revenue received from taxes on international tourists, but it is difficult to predict the number of international tourist arrivals, which determines the magnitude of tax revenue receipts. A framework is presented for risk management of daily tourist tax revenues for the Maldives, which is a unique SITE because it relies almost entirely on tourism for its economic and social development. As international tourism receipts are significant financial assets to the economies of SITEs, the timevarying volatility of international tourist arrivals and their growth rate is analogous to the volatility (or dynamic risk) in financial returns. The volatility in the levels and growth rates of daily international tourist arrivals are investigated in the paper. This paper provides a template for the future analysis of earnings from international tourism, particularly tourism taxes for SITEs, discusses the direct and indirect monetary benefits from international tourism, highlights tourism taxes in the Maldives as a development financing phenomenon, and provides a framework for discussing the design and implementation of tourism taxes. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the analysis developed in this paper can be used by the Maldivian Government in determining monetary and fiscal policy, by creditors to evaluate the risks associated with providing financial support to the Maldives, and by resort operators to decide whether to expand or contract their operations.

Keywords: Small Island Tourism Economies (SITEs); International tourist arrivals; Tourism tax; Volatility; Risk; Value-at-Risk (VaR); Sustainable Tourism@Risk (ST@R). (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-11
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