摘要：This paper empirically examines the role of religious tourism in
sustainable development to the projection of Saudi Arabia 2030. This study
observes the causal relationship between hajj pilgrims and economic growth in the
KSA by conducting a quantile Granger non-causality test. We show that the causal
relationship between hajj pilgrims and economic growth strengthens when a
quantile Granger non-causality test of Chuang et al. (2009) is considered. This
finding implies that the hajj pilgrims could provide the incremental predictability
for the sustainable development in KSA, and hence, results from linear Granger
causality tests cannot be considered robust.
关键词：Religious tourism; Economic growth; causality in quantiles; nonlinear
dependence; development of the Saudi Arabia territory
