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Revisiting the Tourism-Led-Growth Hypothesis - Fresh Evidence From the World’s Top Ten Tourist Destinations

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  • Isiaka Akande Raifu
  • Joshua Adeyemi Afolabi

    (Department of Economics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

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This study examines whether structural breaks matter in the tourism-growth nexus. We estimated annual and quarterly data for the world’s top 10 tourism destinations between 1995 and 2020 using the structural break, Fixed Effects and Feasible Generalised Least Square (FGLS) approaches. This study provides evidence of structural fractures in the relationship between tourism (in the lead) and economic growth.

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  • Isiaka Akande Raifu & Joshua Adeyemi Afolabi, 2024. "Revisiting the Tourism-Led-Growth Hypothesis - Fresh Evidence From the World’s Top Ten Tourist Destinations," Asian Economics Letters, Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association, vol. 5(1), pages 1-5.
  • Handle: RePEc:ayb:jrnael:104
    DOI: 2024/07/01
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    • L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General

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