A seasonal analysis of Asian tourist arrivals to Australia

Rapid economic growth in South-East and East Asia has seen a surge in tourist arrivals from this region to Australia in the 1990s, prior to the currency crisis in late 1997. The purpose of the paper is to use Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models to explain the nonstationary seasonally unadjusted quarterly tourist arrivals from Hong Kong and Singapore to Australia from 1975(1) to 1996(4). As the tourist arrivals series display strong seasonal patterns, deterministic and stochastic seasonality are examined as possible explanations for variations in the international tourist arrivals series. The Hylleberg et al. (Journal of Econometrics, 99, pp. 215-38, 1990) test for seasonal unit roots is used to examine stochastic seasonality in the various series.     

洞庭湖区旅游资源开发研究

改革开放以来,我国旅游业一枝独秀,发展势头强劲,湖南省旅游业也在不断攀升,湖南省旅游资源数量多、种类全、品位高,旅游开发潜力巨大。来湘旅游的入境游客中的核心部分来自港、澳、台地区,而国内客源中广东游客占了近三成,再加上西面张家界,南面长株潭(“红色旅游”资源)等旅游大市的冲击,使位于湘北的洞庭湖区旅游业的发展面临极大的挑战。洞庭湖区近年来旅游业发展方兴未艾,目前,进一步利用湖区旅游资源优势,克服湖区旅游资源开发中存在的问题,寻求旅游资源开发的对策,加强对洞庭湖区旅游资源的保护性开发,走具有湖区特色的旅游业发展道路,对促进环洞庭湖经济圈社会经济文化的可持续发展,具有十分重要的现实意义。     

中国航空国际网络结构特征及其对入境旅游的影响

国际旅游对航空运输高度依赖,入境旅游流网络与航空网络有密切关系。应用社会网络分析法,利用中国大陆城市与国境外城市间的国际航班信息,对由45个大陆城市与4个境外城市、110个外国城市组成的中国航空国际网络的结构特征及其对中国入境旅游的影响进行研究。得出结论：①中国航空国际网络是核心—边缘网络;网络中核心节点数量偏少且主要是出入境口岸城市,香港、北京、上海、广州、首尔、新加坡等城市是核心节点;边缘节点数量偏多,许多重要的入境旅游目的地城市和客源地城市在中国航空国际网络中的地位不够重要。②中国航空国际网络对入境旅游具有决定性影响,不仅决定其空间组织模式,而且决定入境客源国结构,还影响旅游城市的入境旅游接待规模。③从拓展中国入境旅游外国市场和扩大规模的角度看,中国航空国际网络结构亟待改善：首先,要与世界主要国家的国际枢纽机场建立更多的国际航班联系;其次,要提升我国北京、上海和广州等机场在国际航空网络中的枢纽地位;第三,要在我国中西部地区培育国际枢纽机场,改变枢纽机场集中分布在东部沿海地区的空间分布格局;第四,要充分发挥香港的枢纽作用,拓展入境旅游外国市场。     

入境旅游客源市场结构实证分析——以江苏省为例

运用SSM分析方法,选取江苏省2001年-2009年相关入境旅游统计数据,对江苏省入境旅游市场结构变化进行分析。研究表明：江苏省入境旅游客源市场中,法国、意大利、新加坡和泰国客源市场基础较好,具有较强的竞争力;中国台湾、日本、印度尼西亚、韩国、美国、加拿大、英国、德国、澳大利亚和其他客源市场基础也较好,但竞争能力更具显著优势;除其他地区之外,马来西亚市场基础最好,然而竞争潜力却较弱;中国香港、中国澳门、菲律宾和俄罗斯原有市场基础相对于其理想规模,市场基础较差,但其竞争能力相对优势明显。从整体上看,由于江苏省入境旅游客源市场结构效果指数和竞争力效果指数均大于1,说明现阶段江苏省市场结构相对合理,并且具有一定的入境旅游客源市场竞争优势,同时结合相应的Shift—Share分析图表,给出了不同结构状态下江苏省入境旅游营销策略。     

Investigating stationarity in tourist arrivals to India using panel KPSS with sharp drifts and smooth breaks

In the study, we applied panel-based stationary test that incorporates sharp as well as smooth breaks to investigate the non-stationarity of long-run tourists’ arrivals to India from major tourists’ source countries for the period 1981–2012. Results from the overall panel data provided significant evidence to support the stationarity hypothesis. However, when tourist arrivals from major source countries are considered, results indicate that tourist arrivals in India from the UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore, and Nepal were non-stationary, suggesting that tourists from these countries are all affected by economic conditions with the greatest extent. The results of the study have important policy implication for the tourist authority of India as well as business sectors in the hospitality industry for understanding and predicting market condition.     

Asymmetric causality between Australian inbound and outbound tourism flows

We employ the asymmetric version of the Granger causality test to assess how Australian inbound and outbound tourism flows across 49 markets (countries) are driven by the sign-dependent variations in departure series or vice versa. A multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (MGARCH) model is also estimated to study the time-varying co-volatility between inbound and outbound tourism growth rates. We find that rising co-volatility spillovers between inbound and outbound tourism are statistically significant for a number of markets. The six markets that are most susceptible to global shocks are China, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, South Africa and the United Kingdom. China is by far the largest of these markets and, except for the United Kingdom, both arrivals and departures for each of these countries represent growing markets for Australia. We present recommendations for policymakers and destination management organizations (DMOs) to assist in developing customized strategies targeting resilient inbound markets in order to optimize tourism performance and reduce potential losses in times of crisis.     

Spatial contagion in the subprime crisis context: Adjusted correlation versus local correlation approaches

This paper investigates the influence of the spatial dimension on financial contagion in the subprime crisis based on adjusted and local correlation measures. Daily series of stock indexes of American and Asian countries are used from January 1, 2003, to December 30, 2011. We consider two groups of countries: the first group includes the United States and countries that are geographically close: Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Canada. The second group includes countries that are geographically distant from the United States: Hong Kong, India, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, China, and Singapore. The results show that simple and adjusted correlations are not enough to explain the spatial effect of contagion. Using local correlations and polynomial regressions, the results show the existence of spatial contagion between the United States and all countries in the American region. As for countries that are geographically distant from the United States, we prove the existence of spatial contagion between only some groups of countries (United States/India, United States/Australia, United States/Indonesia, United States/Malaysia, United States/China). These results have international diversification, and within-industry implications.     

Analysis on inbound tourists satisfaction in China:an empirical study based on the investigation of 5 cities

In China,the tourism industry is regarded as one means of fostering local economic development.This paper tries to examine inbound tourism development in China in the last decade and analyze inbound tourism's satisfaction of their travel experience with tourist attractions,facilities,services and price by an empirical study based on the investigation of Lanzhou,Wuhan,Guangzhou,Shanghai and Beijing.This paper discusses the demographie characteristics of visitors from Hong Kong,Macao and Taiwan,US,Korea and Japan by surveying a sample of 528 visitors in five different cities.The survey showed that four provinces/autonomous region in western China ranked the top 10 popular destinations.Chinese natural landscape,culture and food were highly regarded by the tourists.At the same time,tourists expressed less satisfaction with tourist language convenience,tourist facility and nightlife in China.It was also found that only 7.4% of the tourists thought travel in China was far more than what they had paid,that 6.5% regarded they got what they paid for,and that 34.9% thought the travel cost was reasonable.Most tourists were satisfied with their travel experience in China;many of them would like to return to China and would like to recommend China.For the sustainable development of tourism,Chinese tourism authorities should strengthen the construction,propaganda and management of scenic spots,improve tourist facility and tourist edueation,especially language convenience,and strengthen the supervision of tickets,souvenir and hotel prtce.     

LONG‐TERM AND SHORT‐TERM EQUITY MARKET PRICE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND THE CHINESE STATES*

This study investigates the extent and manner of long‐term and short‐term price interaction between the equity market of Australia and those of China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan taking into account the effect of the Asian financial crisis. It uses cointegration and generalised forecast variance and impulse response analyses. The study finds no long‐term price relationship between the equity markets of Australia and the Chinese states. The short‐term evidence indicates that Australia was only significantly interdependent with Hong Kong during the pre‐Asian crisis period and with Hong Kong and Singapore during the post‐crisis period. Australia and these markets react to a shock from each other immediately during the first day and complete this reaction by day two. These findings are useful for investors and policy makers, especially in light of the economic importance of these nations and China's recent admittance to the World Trade Organisation.     

The asian financial crisis and the natural rate of unemployment: Estimates from a structural var for the newly industrializing economies of asia

Abstract. We use a structural vector autoregressive model to estimate the natural rate of unemployment for Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan for the period 1982–2000. Our results show that the dramatic rise in the unemployment rate observed in Hong Kong and Korea was mainly the result of demand shocks rather than structural changes, while in Singapore the unemployment rate rise reflected almost entirely a rise in the natural rate. Taiwan's natural rate has been relatively stable. We offer explanations for these different results in terms of the different economic characteristics (particularly labor market features) of the four countries.     

内地赴港游客在深圳旅游消费行为研究

内地赴港游客是深圳市重要的旅游细分市场。本文对游客消费特征、购买行为、购后行为等方面进行研究,分析影响赴港游客在深圳消费行为的因素。研究表明,通过深圳的赴港游客有三分之一在深圳停留,并且以个人游的中青年游客为主,性别、年龄结构、职业、旅游目的影响他们的停留动机、停留时间和停留目的。所以,应提供便利的交通,提供丰富的产品组合,扩大酒店规模,拓宽营销渠道和开发潜在游客,以更好地针对内地赴港游客发展深圳旅游业。     

Beach ‘lovers’ and ‘greens’: A worldwide empirical analysis of coastal tourism

This paper examines worldwide tourist coastal destination choice using a comprehensive global dataset at the country level, for both domestic and international tourists. This data includes a systematic profile of the countries' coastline with respect to economic and natural environments, such as marine biodiversity related indicators. Tourist demand is modelled using a system of simultaneous structural equations estimated by a 3SLS routine. We identify two tourist demand segments, denoting different preferences for the worldwide coastal destinations. International tourists choose their coastal destination because they have a strong preference for the cultural and natural environments. This, in turn, depends on the destination of country's coastal habitat abundance and marine biodiversity. We label this segment of coastal tourism, as “greens”. Alternatively, domestic tourists have a preference for beach characteristics, in particular beach length. This in turn depends on anthropogenic pressure, the built environment and climatic variables. For this reason we interpret this tourism segment as “beach lovers”. This information is, in turn, of high significance for stimulating coastal tourism demand as well as for identifying market based policy instruments with the objective to finance the conservation of environmental and cultural capital hosted at the coastal communities.     

Hong Kong Output Dynamics: An Empirical Analysis

Abstract. Advanced statistical techniques are used to analyze Hong Kong output dynamics. Hong Kong, Japan and the US are found to share some common long‐term and short‐term cyclical variations. While the Hong Kong economy is susceptible to external shocks and Granger‐caused by the other two economies, local factors account for a large proportion of output growth variability and uncertainty. On the transmission mechanism, the selected trade and financial variables have incremental explanatory power but do not lessen the ability of lagged output variables to explain Hong Kong growth dynamics. Interestingly, the US does not appear to exert undue influences on Hong Kong.     

The Balassa–Samuelson Effect in a Developing Country

Some Asian countries experience small real exchange rate appreciations or even a real depreciation despite a fast growth in tradable productivity. A key‐characteristic of these countries is that they are constrained on capital inflows. Is the Balassa–Samuelson theory still valid in those countries? Are there other factors likely to explain real exchange rate (RER) changes? To address these questions, we develop a two‐sector model in which a small open economy faces a constraint on capital inflows. In this setting, the RER does not only depend on productivity, but also on other factors like the rate of time preference, the age dependency ratio or the level of the external constraint. A calibration of the constrained economy model seems to match at least qualitatively empirical evidence for China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore, between 1970 and 1992.     

Dynamic linkages between exchange rates and stock prices: Evidence from East Asian markets

This study examines dynamic linkages between exchange rates and stock prices for seven East Asian countries, including Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand, for the period January 1988 to October 1998. Our empirical results show a significant causal relation from exchange rates to stock prices for Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand before the 1997 Asian financial crisis. We also find a causal relation from the equity market to the foreign exchange market for Hong Kong, Korea, and Singapore. Further, while no country shows a significant causality from stock prices to exchange rates during the Asian crisis, a causal relation from exchange rates to stock prices is found for all countries except Malaysia. Our findings are robust with respect to various testing methods used, including Granger causality tests, a variance decomposition analysis, and an impulse response analysis. Our findings also indicate that the linkages vary across economies with respect to exchange rate regimes, the trade size, the degree of capital control, and the size of equity market.     

我国入境旅游者流动行为机理分析——对旅游热点城市西安的实证研究

旅游者流动机理是旅游地理学与旅游者行为学交叉研究的重要内容。推—拉理论是解释游客流动原因的一种有效方法。以西安入境旅游者为研究对象,从推—拉理论的视角,运用因子分析、单因素方差分析和皮尔逊相关分析等方法对来华入境游客的流动机理进行研究,得到的主要结论有:①明确了西安入境旅游者推力维度和拉力维度的各个因子;②检测了推拉维度的各因子受社会人口统计学变量的影响;③测度了推拉维度各因子之间的相互关联性及影响因素。研究成果对指导我国各主要旅游城市进行针对性的产品开发和市场营销具有一定的实践价值,同时在理论上也拓展了国内旅游流推力与拉力之间关系研究的范畴。     

民族村寨旅游旅游者研究综述

在国内外民族村寨旅游相关文献收集整理的基础上,对国内外民族村寨旅游者方面的研究成果进行了较为系统的综述。国外主要研究其心理特征及行为表达两个方面,国内侧重旅游者的需求预测、旅游者决策行为、旅游者满意度、旅游者感知度等的研究。文章结合我国民族村寨旅游发展情况,寻找未来研究方向,并提出自己的看法。     

Measuring asymmetry and persistence in conditional volatility in real output: evidence from three East Asian tigers using a multivariate GARCH approach

We search for evidence of conditional volatility in the quarterly real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rates of three East Asian tigers: Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The widely accepted Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (EGARCH)-type model is used to capture the existence of asymmetric volatility and the potential structural break points in the volatility. We find evidence of asymmetry and persistence in the volatility of GDP growth rates. It is noted that the structural breakpoints of volatility correspond reasonably well to the historical economic and political events in these economies. Policy implications from our findings are discussed.     

The asymmetric price adjustment between REIT and stock markets in Asia-Pacific markets

This paper applies the threshold error correction model to examine the relationship for real estate investment trusts (REITs) and stock, and their asymmetric adjustment behaviors in six Asian/Pacific financial markets: Australia, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, and Hong Kong. Our results show that there has been long-term equilibrium in REIT and stock indices in most of these markets. To earn exceptional profits, it is recommended that investors can sell (buy) the REITs when the indices of REITs are lower (higher) than equilibrium in Australia, Singapore and Taiwan; on the other hand, they should sell (buy) when the REIT market goes up (down) in Hong Kong and Japan. A causality test revealed that previous information about stocks predicted changes in the REITs in all the Asian/Pacific markets. One can also find that the lead–lag relationships are significant. The threshold EC model predicts two-way causality under both the regimes for the financial markets in most countries during all the sample periods. In addition, the adjustment speeds for the stock indices are faster than that for the REIT indices as disequilibrium occurs. This paper also finds that the previous mentioned trading strategies generally remained the same during the period of sub-prime mortgage crisis. However, the threshold EC model predicts one-way causality for both the regimes for the financial markets in most countries during this crisis period. In addition, we also find that the severe shock in REIT markets led investors in Australia and Taiwan to be more conservative during this period. The REIT indices had more effect on stock indices after the sub-prime mortgage crisis. According to the empirical results, we can infer that the degree of market imbalance and the occurrence of the sub-prime mortgage crisis induce the changes in the investment behavior of market participants.     

TOURISM, TAXES AND IMMISERIZATION: A TRADE THEORETIC ANALYSIS

Abstract.   Many countries promote tourism as a device for earning foreign exchange and promoting domestic welfare and growth. In all these countries the non-traded goods (internationally not traded) are consumed by both domestic residents and tourists. It is well known that the relative price of non-traded goods and services is determined in the local market – hence the tourist demand results in monopoly power in trade for the host country. We use a very simple two-country model to demonstrate the specific nature of the offer curve and the trade equilibrium and the difficulties of taxation.