TheEffective Factors Analysis on Tourism Industry in Middle, South and West Asia

Subject Areas : Financial Economics

Narciss Amin Rashti ¹ , Fatemeh Fahimifar ² , Ebrahim Siami Araghi ³

1 - Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch.
2 - M.A In Economics
3 - M.A In Economics

Received: 2015-06-10 Accepted : 2015-06-10 Published : 2009-09-23

Keywords: Panel Data, the number of tourists, Ecotourism, wars and insecurity,

Abstract :

Because of the ancient history and various nature species, Asia continent have attracted many tourists from all over the word. Various negative reasons such as civil and foreign wars, terrorism, ethnic and tribal prejudice, etc have been effective on few tourists in this region. In spite of oil and petroleum resources, and high incomes in these countries, there isn’t any serious focus on tourism. The present study investigates effective factors on tourism in Middle, South and West Asia. Also, it analyzes these factors with focus on revolutions and recent world circumstance. Moreover, the effect of nature attractions such as species’ extinction (e.g. plants, birds, mammalians, and fishes) is discussed in order to tourist attraction. So, Panel Data is used for time period form 3227to 4112. The results show that some factors (such as Insecurity) have negative effect and others positive (such as ecotourism) on the number of tourists