{"id":4778,"date":"2021-06-14T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T09:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/jem\/?post_type=article&#038;p=4778"},"modified":"2021-09-09T12:29:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T04:29:55","slug":"does-country-with-multi-ethnic-multi-linguistic-and-multi-religious-society-induce-tourist-arrivals-worldwide-evidence","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/jem\/article\/does-country-with-multi-ethnic-multi-linguistic-and-multi-religious-society-induce-tourist-arrivals-worldwide-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Country with Multi-ethnic, Multi-linguistic and Multi-religious Society Induce Tourist Arrivals? Worldwide Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tourism sector contributes foreign exchange earnings to the nation; tax revenue to the government; and provide jobs to the population as well as open-up business opportunities to the communities. Thus, international tourist arrivals play a central role in stimulating economic growth by ensuring substantial export income in the form of international tourist expenditures to a destination country. A fundamental question that relates international visitors and the destination country is: \u201cDoes diversity play an important role in promoting tourism?\u201d Studies have found that ethno-linguistic diversity affect a country\u2019s tourism competitiveness negatively. This is because high levels of ethnic diversity tend to be associated with low investment, poor governance as a result of poor communication, low collective action and weak cohesion due to differences in ethnic groups\u2019 value system. In this study, using a sample of 126 countries, our results suggest that ethnic, linguistic, and religious fractionalization negatively affected the destination choice of international tourist arrivals. Nevertheless, national income and safety of a country have positive impact on tourist arrivals, but air pollution affects negatively tourist arrivals to a destination country. Some policy implications that would promote tourism are that a country needs to promote and portray multi-racial country that are safe, peoples enjoy diversity in culture and lived in harmony; good facilities and infrastructure related to tourism; and less pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","tags":[815,814,592,813],"jel-code":[],"article-type":[1329],"class_list":["entry","author-jem","post-4778","article","type-article","status-publish","tag-cross-country-analysis","tag-diversity","tag-tourism-demand","tag-tourist-arrivals","article-type-normal-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/jem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/jem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/jem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/jem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4783,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/jem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4778\/revisions\/4783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/jem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/jem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"jel-code","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/jem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jel-code?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/jem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}