Tourism and Hotels in Sarawak: Economic Performance
This study investigates the relationship between output growth in the hotels industry in Sarawak (in term of Revenue),tourist arrivals, exchange rate and economic growth in Sarawak, using the time series data from 1975 to 2004. An Augmented-Dickey Fuller (ADF) unit root test, Johansen and Juselius...
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| author | Dayang Hummida, Abang Abdul Rahman Dayang Affizzah, Awang Marikan Salbiah, Edman |
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| description | This study investigates the relationship between output growth in the hotels industry in Sarawak (in term of Revenue),tourist arrivals, exchange rate and economic growth in Sarawak, using the time series data from 1975 to 2004. An
Augmented-Dickey Fuller (ADF) unit root test, Johansen and Juselius cointegration approach and causality test based
on Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) were deployed to run the analysis. The findings show the existent of the
long-run and short-run relationship between the variables. Besides that, the results reveal that tourist arrivals have apositive impact on growth. However exchange rate has a negative impact on economic growth. |
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| spelling | unimas-179062023-03-23T07:21:46Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17906/ Tourism and Hotels in Sarawak: Economic Performance Dayang Hummida, Abang Abdul Rahman Dayang Affizzah, Awang Marikan Salbiah, Edman H Social Sciences (General) This study investigates the relationship between output growth in the hotels industry in Sarawak (in term of Revenue),tourist arrivals, exchange rate and economic growth in Sarawak, using the time series data from 1975 to 2004. An Augmented-Dickey Fuller (ADF) unit root test, Johansen and Juselius cointegration approach and causality test based on Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) were deployed to run the analysis. The findings show the existent of the long-run and short-run relationship between the variables. Besides that, the results reveal that tourist arrivals have apositive impact on growth. However exchange rate has a negative impact on economic growth. Elsevier Ltd. 2012 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17906/1/Tourism.pdf Dayang Hummida, Abang Abdul Rahman and Dayang Affizzah, Awang Marikan and Salbiah, Edman (2012) Tourism and Hotels in Sarawak: Economic Performance. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 65. pp. 1020-1026. ISSN 1877-0428 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042812052214 doi : 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.11.236 |
| spellingShingle | H Social Sciences (General) Dayang Hummida, Abang Abdul Rahman Dayang Affizzah, Awang Marikan Salbiah, Edman Tourism and Hotels in Sarawak: Economic Performance |
| title | Tourism and Hotels in Sarawak: Economic Performance |
| title_full | Tourism and Hotels in Sarawak: Economic Performance |
| title_fullStr | Tourism and Hotels in Sarawak: Economic Performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tourism and Hotels in Sarawak: Economic Performance |
| title_short | Tourism and Hotels in Sarawak: Economic Performance |
| title_sort | tourism and hotels in sarawak: economic performance |
| topic | H Social Sciences (General) |
| url | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17906/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17906/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17906/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17906/1/Tourism.pdf |