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THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF TOURISM DEMAND: THE CASE OF PUSH FACTORS IN AN EMITIVE REGION

This paper analyses the socio-economic determinants of outbound tourism demand. The relative and absolute importance of tourism in people's expenditure budgets has risen dramatically over past few decades. International tourists' expenditure has consequences not only on the wellfare of tourists themselves but also for the residents of the areas they visit. The significant level and repercussions of international tourism demand provide a strong case for better understanding of tourists' decision-makin process. The purpose of this paper is to analyse tourism demand determinants using panel data approach and to asertain whether variables of social as well as an economic nature are important in determinantion of international tourism for emitive region. The novelity of the paper is in the acknowledgement of the tourists' social environment to be an important driver of demand for outbound tourism besides the well teoretically and empirically aknowledged economic determinants. Furthermore, the paper departs from the existing empirical literature emphasis on the push and pull determinants of international tourism demand taken together, showing the need to use push and pull factors separately in specific cases. Finally, the paper provides the basis for the formulation of panel data models for estimating tourism demand, and hence, for more accurate results and more appropriate policy implications.

emitive tourism demand, international tourism, panel data, push factors

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