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Psychological factors of Canadian and Mexican tourists and the US tourism sector

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This paper investigates the impact of psychological factors of Canadian and Mexican tourists on the US tourism sector. Using the data of 1996–2019, the study uses vector autoregression models and the spillover analysis to perform the investigation. The paper discovers that high insecurity of tourists significantly reduces tourist arrivals, passenger fare receipts, and expenditure of tourists in the US. Also, tourist inflows are highly influenced by insecurity during terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and the financial crisis of the US. It is found that high sentiment of Canadian and Mexican tourists increases their outbound travel to the US, but the impact of sentiment is relatively stronger for the Canadian tourists. Results show that the tourist inflows from Canada and Mexico are influenced by low sentiment during recessionary periods of Canada and Mexico, respectively. The paper finds no robust evidence of mood and nationalism-based retaliation of tourists for traveling to the US.

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  • Khandokar Istiak, 2023. "Psychological factors of Canadian and Mexican tourists and the US tourism sector," Tourism Economics, , vol. 29(5), pages 1328-1354, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:toueco:v:29:y:2023:i:5:p:1328-1354
    DOI: 10.1177/13548166221104390
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