THE ROLE OF RELIGIOUS TOURISM IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN SAUDI ARABIA: EVIDENCE FROM QUANTILE NON-CAUSALITY TEST

Geo Journal of Tourism and Geosites

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Mohamed Bilel TRIKI¹ 

[1] Department of Management, Community College, University of Bisha

关键词: Religious tourism;    Economic growth;    causality in quantiles;    nonlinear dependence;    development of the Saudi Arabia territory;   

DOI  :  10.30892/gtg.27417-436

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Editura Universitatii din Oradea / University of Oradea Publishing House

【 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.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC-ND