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Testing convergence of Fiji's tourism markets

journal contribution
posted on 2007-11-01, 00:00 authored by Paresh Narayan
The convergence hypothesis for tourism markets is based on the tenet that when tourism markets are converging the difference between total international visitor arrivals to a country and international visitor arrivals from a particular country will be stationary. We argue that if this is true, then convergence can also be tested through examining whether total visitor arrivals and visitor arrivals from a particular market are cointegrated. We test the convergence hypothesis by examining visitor arrivals to Fiji from eight tourist source markets, using both unit root and cointegration tests. We find strong statistical evidence that Fiji's tourism markets converge.

History

Journal

Pacific economic review

Volume

12

Issue

5

Pagination

651 - 663

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing

Location

Richmond, Vic.

ISSN

1361-374X

eISSN

1468-0106

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2007, Blackwell Publishing