TY - JOUR
T1 - Deteriorating Australia-China relations and prospects for the Australian tourism industry
T2 - A dynamic demand analysis
AU - Selvanathan, Saroja
AU - Jayasinghe, Maneka
AU - Eliyathamby, Eliyathamby A.Selvanathan
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank the Asia Pacific College of Business and Law, Charles Darwin University for providing funds to undertake this research project. The authors gratefully acknowledge the constructive comments received by Dr Syed Ali Abbas and the participants of the Symposium on Changing Australia-China relations: Implications for the Australian Economy, organised by the Economic Policy Analysis Program at Griffith University in September 2021. The authors would like to thank Ms. Tanya Parker for editorial assistance.
PY - 2022/8/21
Y1 - 2022/8/21
N2 - Inbound tourism from China contributes to around 15% of Australian tourist arrivals. However, the political and trade relations between the two countries began to deteriorate since 2018. Considering this environment, using annual data from 1991 to 2019, this study enables the identification of alternative tourism markets for Australia. The results suggest that maintaining price competitiveness and consumer satisfaction should be high priorities of the Australian tourism policy to attract more tourists. The findings of this study provide insights to formulate new strategies to attract tourists from the other top markets in the event of a decline in Chinese tourist arrivals to Australia.
AB - Inbound tourism from China contributes to around 15% of Australian tourist arrivals. However, the political and trade relations between the two countries began to deteriorate since 2018. Considering this environment, using annual data from 1991 to 2019, this study enables the identification of alternative tourism markets for Australia. The results suggest that maintaining price competitiveness and consumer satisfaction should be high priorities of the Australian tourism policy to attract more tourists. The findings of this study provide insights to formulate new strategies to attract tourists from the other top markets in the event of a decline in Chinese tourist arrivals to Australia.
KW - inbound tourism
KW - Australia-China relationship
KW - tourism price elasticity
KW - tourism income elasticity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85136572780&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/13548166221122469
DO - 10.1177/13548166221122469
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85136572780
SP - 1
EP - 20
JO - Tourism Economics: the business and finance of tourism and recreation
JF - Tourism Economics: the business and finance of tourism and recreation
SN - 1354-8166
ER -