TY - JOUR
T1 - The exchange rate; its volatility and tourism demand
AU - Imamboccus, Rookayyah
AU - Seetanah, Boopen
AU - Khan Jaffur, Zameelah
AU - Nunkoo, Robin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This study aims at investigating the long-run and short-run relationships between international tourist arrivals in Mauritius and some of its key driving factors using an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model over the period 1983–2019. Drawing on previous studies and exchange rate, its volatility, tourism infrastructure, relative price, tourists’ income and economic crisis are employed as the explanatory variables to examine this nexus. The results show that income and relative price influence tourist arrivals in both the long-run and short-run. In the long run, tourism infrastructure also proves to be significant. Nevertheless, both exchange rate and its volatility are insignificant.
AB - This study aims at investigating the long-run and short-run relationships between international tourist arrivals in Mauritius and some of its key driving factors using an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model over the period 1983–2019. Drawing on previous studies and exchange rate, its volatility, tourism infrastructure, relative price, tourists’ income and economic crisis are employed as the explanatory variables to examine this nexus. The results show that income and relative price influence tourist arrivals in both the long-run and short-run. In the long run, tourism infrastructure also proves to be significant. Nevertheless, both exchange rate and its volatility are insignificant.
KW - ARDL
KW - Exchange rates
KW - Mauritius
KW - exchange rate volatility
KW - tourist arrivals
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85182423604&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13032917.2024.2303639
DO - 10.1080/13032917.2024.2303639
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85182423604
SN - 1303-2917
JO - Anatolia
JF - Anatolia
ER -