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The relationship between tourism receipts, real effective exchange rate and economic growth in Tunisia
Author(s) -
Belloumi Mounir
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international journal of tourism research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.155
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1522-1970
pISSN - 1099-2340
DOI - 10.1002/jtr.774
Subject(s) - tourism , granger causality , economics , real gross domestic product , gross domestic product , exchange rate , effective exchange rate , cointegration , causality (physics) , macroeconomics , monetary economics , econometrics , international economics , geography , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of tourism in the Tunisian economic growth. We used a trivariate model of real gross domestic product (GDP), real international tourism receipts and real effective exchange rate to discuss the relationship between tourism and economic growth. By using annual data for Tunisia for the period of 1970–2007, our results reveal that there is a cointegrating relationship between tourism and economic growth. In addition, our results for the Granger causality test indicate that tourism has a positive impact on GDP growth unidirectionally. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.