Modelling interstate tourism demand in Australia: A cointegration approach

Interstate tourism is an important component of the domestic tourism business in Australia. However, empirical analyses of interstate tourism demand have not been previously undertaken. The motivation for this paper is to investigate the shortand long-run causal relationships between economic factors and interstate tourism demand in Australia. Using a cointegration approach, this study discovers two distinct results. First, Australian household income, accommodation prices, prices of recreation and restaurants, and domestic airfares have significant impacts on the demand in the shortrun. Second, some of the long-run economic coefficients show incorrect sign, which contradicts the theory of consumer demand.