期刊名称：Tourismos : An International Multidisciplinary Journal of Tourism
印刷版ISSN：1790-8418
出版年度：2006
卷号：1
期号：01
页码：53-53
出版社：University of the Aegean
摘要：Little serious research has been undertaken into the significance of
transport as a factor in destination development despite being
acknowledged by many writers. The paper aims at identifying and
quantifying the factors that made Mauritius attractive to tourists and
also to more importantly to investigate the importance transportation
capital in the overall destination’s attractiveness. The novelty of this
paper is that is extends a classical demand for international tourism
function to include a proxy of public capital stock which has been
decoupled into transport and non-transport infrastructure, and also
uses co-integration analysis to model the determinants of tourism for a
small island economy case. Results from the analysis show that
transport capital stock of the country has been contributing positively of
the number of tourist arrival in both short and long run. Tourism
infrastructure is reported to be a more important ingredient than
transport in the tourism equation. Non transport infrastructure, though
having a positive sign, was however found to be insignificant. The study
thus highlights the importance of transport capital in adding to the
value of service and experience received by tourism.
