Table 1 Evaluation of the literature on tourism and economic development.

From: Modeling the link between tourism and economic development: evidence from homogeneous panels of countries

Authors (date)

Journal

Time span

Destinations analyzed

Methodology

Causa-lity

Time series or panel data

Croes (2012)

Journal of Travel Research

1990–2009

Nicaragua and Costa Rica

Unit root test - ECM - OLS - Granger causality

T ↔ D

Panel data

Cárdenas-García et al. (2015)

Journal of Travel Research

1991–2010

144 countries

SEM (structural equation model)

T → D

Panel data

Meyer and Meyer (2016)

Journal of Environmental Management

2001–2014

Vaal Triangle (South Africa)

Unit roots test - Granger Causality

T → D

Panel data

Ridderstaat et al. (2016)

Journal of Travel Research

1972–2011

Aruba

Unit Root Test - ARDL

T → D

Time series

Biagi et al. (2017)

International Journal of Tourism Research

1996–2008

63 countries

Unit root test - Hausman test- GLS - GMM

T → D

Panel data

Kubickova et al. (2017)

Tourism Management Perspectives

1995–2007

7 countries

Hausman test- Unit root test – Johansen - VECM

T ↔ D

Panel data

Fahimi et al. (2018)

Tourism Management Perspectives

1995–2015

9 micro-states

Unit root test - Cointegration - Granger causality

T → D

Panel data

Tan et al. (2019)

Research in World Economy

1998–2015

Malaysia

Johansen cointegration - VECM

T → D

Time series

Boonyasana and Chinnakum (2020)

ABAC Journal

1995–2018

Thailand

Unit root test - OLS - Regression

T → D

Time series

Croes et al. (2021)

Tourism Management

1995–2017

Poland

DFA - PP - Elliott-Rothenberg-Stock – Unit Toot Test

-

Time series

Pulido-Fernández and Cárdenas-García (2021)

Journal of Travel Research

1993–2017

143 countries

Confirmatory factor analysis -SEM

T ↔ D

Panel data

Chattopadhyay et al. (2022)

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

1998–2020

133 countries

Pesaran - FMOLS - Dumitrescu and Hurlin causality

-

Panel data

  1. T: Tourism/D: Economic Development.