The relationship between international tourism arrivals and receipts in the Americas

Tourism is a social activity that is related to the movement of peoples around the world for a variety of personal, commercial, and educational purposes. While there are different studies on tourism, few have investigated the causality relationship between international tourism arrivals and receipts in the Americas for a considerable extension of time to obtain more realistic results. This research applies simple linear regression analysis to study the bidirectional causality relationship between international tourism arrivals and receipts. This research uses the IBM SPSS Statistics software (version 27) for analysis. Public data from the World Bank Open Data on 17 states of the Americas covers 25 years of data from 1995 to 2019. The conclusion of this research is that while most of the states achieved a significant effect from international tourism arrivals to international tourism receipts and vice versa, only one country in the Americas demonstrated a bidirectional causality relationship without problems of autocorrelation. In that regard, the results show that more international tourism arrivals do not always mean more tourism income. Similarly, more tourism income does not always cause more international tourism arrivals.