The Tourism-Poverty Nexus: Does Tourism Spending Influence Poverty Rates? Empirical Evidence from Regional Vietnamese Data

This paper addresses the question of whether tourism spending will decrease poverty. Real incomes and tourism spending are usually positively correlated, thus complicating the question of causality from tourism spending to poverty. Regional Vietnamese data are applied in a test of whether tourism sp...

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Published inJournal of poverty Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 153 - 165
Main Authors Thi Thanh Truc, Ngo, Bentzen, Jan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Binghamton Routledge 23.02.2023
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Expenditures
Forecasting
Forecasting performance
Longitudinal studies
panel data model
Poverty
Regions
Tourism
tourism spending
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Summary:This paper addresses the question of whether tourism spending will decrease poverty. Real incomes and tourism spending are usually positively correlated, thus complicating the question of causality from tourism spending to poverty. Regional Vietnamese data are applied in a test of whether tourism spending - in a model of poverty - will increase the forecasting performance compared to a model including only incomes. The test results reveal no improvement of the forecasting performance when tourism spending is included. Thus, there is no evidence of a direct link from tourism spending to poverty, but there may be indirect effects via incomes.
ISSN:1087-5549
1540-7608
DOI:10.1080/10875549.2021.2010870