Relationship between ICT and international tourism demand: A study of major tourist destinations

• Nikeel Kumar ^[1] ; Ronald Ravinesh Kumar ^[2]
  1. [1] University of the South Pacific

     University of the South Pacific

     Fiyi

     
  2. [2] Ton Duc Thang University

     Ton Duc Thang University

     Vietnam

     
• Localización: Tourism economics: the business and finance of tourism and recreation, ISSN 1354-8166, Vol. 26, Nº. Extra 6, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: e-Tourism economics), págs. 908-925
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this article, we study the effect of ICT on tourism demand in nine major tourist destinationsbased on visitor arrivals. Mobile and broadband subscriptions are used to proxy for ICT. Addi-tionally, we account for price, source country’s income, and the destination’s income. Balancedpanels for the period 1995–2017 and 2002–2017 are used for mobile and broadband subscriptions,respectively. The pooled mean group approach is used for estimation. The results indicate a 1%increase in mobile subscriptions and broadband would increase international visitor arrivals by0.04% and 0.11%, respectively. The elasticity coefficients of price and income are0.71 and 1.58,respectively, based on the mobile subscription model, and0.88 and 1.83, respectively, based onbroadband subscription. The destination’s income has only a short-run positive association withtourism demand. The causality results indicate that ICT cause tourism demand, and support fortechnology-led growth hypothesis in the major tourist destinations.