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The effectiveness of the legal system and inbound tourism

Gozgor, G.; Lau, C.; Zeng, Y.; Lin, Z.

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G. Gozgor

C. Lau

Y. Zeng



Abstract

This paper investigates the impacts of the effectiveness of the legal system and protection of the property rights on tourism development using a panel data of 152 countries over the period 1995–2015. The paper considers the fixed-effects, Hausman–Taylor (HT), and system generalized method of moments (GMM) estimations and the results demonstrate that a higher level of legal system quality and better protection of property rights promote inbound tourism. Specifically, the results show that higher judicial independence and better enforcement of contracts enhance the development of tourism. The benchmark results are robust to focus on the different groups of countries and measures for tourism development as well as to exclude the outlier observations.

Citation

Gozgor, G., Lau, C., Zeng, Y., & Lin, Z. (2019). The effectiveness of the legal system and inbound tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 76, 24-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.03.003

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 5, 2019
Online Publication Date Mar 13, 2019
Publication Date May 31, 2019
Deposit Date Mar 14, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Annals of Tourism Research
Print ISSN 0160-7383
Publisher Elsevier Masson
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 76
Pages 24-35
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.03.003
Keywords tourism development; inbound tourism; legal system; property rights; panel data estimator
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1306212

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