A model of tourism demand for Tunisia: Inclusion of the tourism investment variable

Tourism Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 819-838

  Choyakh, Houssine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Error correction models; Tourism demand; Tourism investment; Weak exogeneity

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC THEORY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; INCOME; INVESTMENT; MACROECONOMICS; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

AFRICA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GERMANY; ITALY; NORTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUNISIA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 57749096101     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000008786440238     Document Type: Article

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