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The Impact of Hurricane Strikes on Tourist Arrivals in the Caribbean

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  • Charley Granvorka

    (CEREGMIA, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Pointe-à -Pitre, Guadeloupe)

  • Eric Strobl

    (Department of Economics, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France, and SALISES, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago)

Abstract

The authors quantify the impact of hurricane strikes on the tourism industry in the Caribbean. To this end they first derive a hurricane destruction index that allows them to calculate the actual wind speed experienced at any locality relative to the hurricane eye of a passing or land falling hurricane. They then employ this hurricane index in a cross-country panel data context to estimate its impact on country-level tourist numbers. The results suggest that an average hurricane strike causes tourism arrivals to be about 2% lower than they would have been had no strike occurred.

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  • Charley Granvorka & Eric Strobl, 2013. "The Impact of Hurricane Strikes on Tourist Arrivals in the Caribbean," Tourism Economics, , vol. 19(6), pages 1401-1409, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:toueco:v:19:y:2013:i:6:p:1401-1409
    DOI: 10.5367/te.2013.0238
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    1. Seung Hyun Lee & Jaeyong Lee, 2020. "Does price gouging happen in the lodging industry? Case of Hurricane Florence," Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 19(3), pages 151-161, June.
    2. Cevik Serhan & Ghazanchyan Manuk, 2021. "Perfect Storm: Climate Change and Tourism," Journal of Globalization and Development, De Gruyter, vol. 12(1), pages 47-61, June.
    3. Eric Kemp-Benedict & Crystal Drakes & Nella Canales, 2020. "A Climate-Economy Policy Model for Barbados," Economies, MDPI, vol. 8(1), pages 1-21, February.
    4. Mahmoud Kamal Abouraia, 2018. "Organizational Learning: An Assessment of its Impact on Crisis Management in the United Arab Emirates," International Journal of Learning and Development, Macrothink Institute, vol. 8(1), pages 1-20, March.
    5. Nekeisha Spencer & Eric Strobl, 2020. "Hurricanes, climate change, and social welfare: evidence from the Caribbean," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 163(1), pages 337-357, November.

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