Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92889 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 532
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
Prior to the recent Asian currency and economic crises, tourism from Asia had rapidly become Australia's major tourism export industry. Tourists from Singapore, which is Australia's fifth major market, represented 6% of international tourist arrivals to Australia in 1996. The average annual growth rate of tourist arrivals from Singapore of around 20% over 1990-96 far exceeded the 10.5% average annual percentage growth rate of all tourist arrivals to Australia over the same period (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1997). Despite the Asian currency and economic crises in 1997-98, tourist arrivals to Australia from Singapore has continued to grow slowly. It is imperative from the tourism marketing SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis to consider the economic factors influencing international tourism demand for Australia by Singapore, and to undertake a primary competitor analysis of New Zealand. The purpose of the paper is to estimate the income, price and transportation cost elasticities of inbound tourism from Singapore to Australia using seasonally unadjusted quarterly data, to determine if Australia and New Zealand are substitute or complementary destinations for Singaporean tourists, and to examine issues such as nonstationarity, cointegration and spurious regressions.
Subjects: 
international tourism
elasticities
income
tourism prices
transportation costs
substitute and complementary destinations
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
178.32 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.