Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/258681 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Risk and Financial Management [ISSN:] 1911-8074 [Volume:] 14 [Issue:] 12 [Article No.:] 578 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 1-23
Publisher: 
MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
Given the tourism industry's risk and vulnerability to pandemics and the need to better understand the impacts on tourism destinations, this research assesses the effect of the COVID-19 outbreak on the variation of taxpayer units in the Mexican Caribbean region, which includes some of the major sun-and-sand beach destinations in Latin America. Using monthly data of registered taxpayer entities at the state and national levels as the analysis variable, probability distributions and definite integrals are employed to determine variations of the year following the lockdown, compared with previous years' data. Results indicate that despite the government's measures to restrict businesses' operations and a reduction in tourism activities, registered taxpayers at the regional level did not decrease for most of 2020. Further, as business activities and tourism recovered, taxpayer units increased at the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021. Surprisingly, such a pattern was not observed at the national level, which yielded no statistically significant variations. A discussion of factors influencing the resilience of the tourism region in the study (e.g., outbound markets' geographic proximity, absence of travel restrictions, closure of competing destinations) and implications for public finances are presented.
Subjects: 
COVID-19
taxpayer entities
economic risk
tourism recovery
fiscal revenues
crisis
resilience
tourism destinations
Mexico
Quintana Roo
Mexican Caribbean
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