Does Political and Economic Freedom Matter for Inbound Tourism? A Cross-National Panel Data Estimation

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Saha, Shrabani
Su, Jen-Je
Campbell, Neil
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2017
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The article examines the impact of political and economic freedom on inbound tourism for more than 110 countries during 1995–2012. Panel country fixed-effects techniques are utilized to examine the relationship after controlling for other factors that contribute to inbound tourism. The results show that civil liberties and economic freedom (among several other freedom measures) are positively and significantly associated with inbound tourism. Examination of the moderation effect reveals that civil liberties (economic freedom) tend to play a more influential role on inbound tourism when the level of economic freedom (civil liberties) is relatively low.

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Journal of Travel Research

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56

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2

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© 2017 SAGE Publications. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.

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Commercial services

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Tourism

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