"Factors affecting demand for tourism in Iran"

Subject Areas : Financial Economics

Teymour  Mohammadi ¹ (Assistan Professor of Economics,Alame Tabatabaei university &Islamic Azad university Branch of Olum tahghighat)
Mojtaba  karimi ² (M.A in Economics)
Negin  Najarzadeh ³ (M.A in Economics)
Masoomeh  Shahkaram oghli ⁴ (M.A in Economics)

Received: 2015-06-10 Accepted : 2015-06-10 Published : 2010-03-21

Keywords: Tourism demand, Ecology, Elasticity of demand,

Abstract :

Since tourism revenues play an important role in the economic performance of national economies, specifying factors affecting it and examination of demand for tourism have economic significance . A partial adjustment model of short run and long run demand for tourism short run and long run demand for tourism has been specified. the period of study is 1331-88 and the estimation method is OLS. The Short and Long Run elasticities of demand for tourism with respect to price are 1732,1753. The results indicates that transport expenditures has no significant effect on demand for tourism but The number of tourist in iran,World GDP,Real exchang rate plays an important role.