Journal
JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
Volume 31, Issue 9, Pages 2023-2041Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2021.1966018
Keywords
Economic effect; tourism growth; MSVAR model; COVID-19; crisis
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The study investigates the sustainability of Hong Kong's tourism industry's economic effects using the MSVAR model and finds that the economic impacts of tourism vary across different stages, depending on the presence and type of crisis. However, the Hong Kong tourism industry shows high levels of stability and sustainability.
The economic effects of tourism industry during periods of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have received significant attention in recent years. The future is likely to pose a range of new challenges and opportunities to sustainable tourism. This paper employs the Markov-switching vector autoregressions (MSVAR) model to investigate the sustainability of tourism's economic effects in Hong Kong, both during periods of crisis and in the absence of crises. The empirical results show that: (1) The MSVAR model is effective in capturing the nonlinear relationship between the economy and tourism and allows for the categorizing of this relationship into four regimes, for example, the major event crises regime and the economic crises regime; (2) The economic effects of tourism differ noticeably across the four different regimes, and sustainability varies depending on the presence and type of crisis; (3) The Hong Kong economy, and the tourism industry in particular, exhibits high levels of stability and sustainability. In short, economic growth in Hong Kong's tourism industry is capable of rapid recovery following major crisis events, and it has the capacity to rebound quickly into new periods of rapid growth.
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