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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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Main Authors: Dayang Hummida, Abang Abdul Rahman, Dayang Affizzah, Awang Marikan, Salbiah, Edman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2012
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H Social Sciences (General)
Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17906/1/Tourism.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17906/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042812052214
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spelling my.unimas.ir.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
institution Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
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Dayang Hummida, Abang Abdul Rahman
Dayang Affizzah, Awang Marikan
Salbiah, Edman
Tourism and Hotels in Sarawak: Economic Performance
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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author Dayang Hummida, Abang Abdul Rahman
Dayang Affizzah, Awang Marikan
Salbiah, Edman
author_facet Dayang Hummida, Abang Abdul Rahman
Dayang Affizzah, Awang Marikan
Salbiah, Edman
author_sort Dayang Hummida, Abang Abdul Rahman
title Tourism and Hotels in Sarawak: Economic Performance
title_short 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_sort tourism and hotels in sarawak: economic performance
publisher Elsevier Ltd.
publishDate 2012
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17906/1/Tourism.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17906/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042812052214
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