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<p>For a long time, tourism has been considered a social, economic and environmental phenomenon that provides products and services whose consumption is supposed to surge in periods of economic growth and wane in periods of slowdown, thereby acting procyclical. To examine this hypothesis, we have explored the exact behavior of tourism activity before and after the last big economic crisis – the Great Recession 2008 followed by the European Sovereign Debt Crisis. We have applied a methodology of business cycle analysis to investigate the relationship between the cyclical components of GDP and tourism nights spent by the residents of 23 EU member states in the 1996-2018 period. We report an important structural change in the relationship between tourism and business cycles. The relationship became apparently weaker over time and finally became insignificant after the end of the crisis, suggesting a smooth structural change. Our findings suggest uncertainty as to how tourism activity would restore its usual dynamics following the end of the current COVID-19 pandemic recession.</p>
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For a long time, tourism has been considered a social, economic and environmental phenomenon that provides products and services whose consumption is supposed to surge in periods of economic growth and wane in periods of slowdown, thereby acting procyclical. To examine this hypothesis, we have explored the exact behavior of tourism activity before and after the last big economic crisis – the Great Recession 2008 followed by the European Sovereign Debt Crisis. We have applied a methodology of business cycle analysis to investigate the relationship between the cyclical components of GDP and tourism nights spent by the residents of 23 EU member states in the 1996-2018 period. We report an important structural change in the relationship between tourism and business cycles. The relationship became apparently weaker over time and finally became insignificant after the end of the crisis, suggesting a smooth structural change. Our findings suggest uncertainty as to how tourism activity would restore its usual dynamics following the end of the current COVID-19 pandemic recession.

Tourism and Business Cycles: Does the Relationship Fade Away?

Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business

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For a long time, tourism has been considered a social, economic and environmental phenomenon that provides products and services whose consumption is supposed...

Tourism and Business Cycles: Does the Relationship Fade Away?

Published Online: Jun 14, 2022

Page range: 95 - 110

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/zireb-2022-0007

Keywords
business cycles, tourism cycles, coherence, the Great Recession 2008

© 2022 Ivan Kožić et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Tourism and Business Cycles: Does the Relationship Fade Away?

Published Online: Jun 14, 2022

Page range: 95 - 110

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/zireb-2022-0007

Keywordsbusiness cycles, tourism cycles, coherence, the Great Recession 2008

© 2022 Ivan Kožić et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
business cycles, tourism cycles, coherence, the Great Recession 2008