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Sarpong SY, Bein MA, Gyamfi BA, et al. The impact of tourism arrivals, tourism receipts and renewable energy consumption on quality of life: A panel study of Southern African region. Heliyon. 2020;6(11):e05351doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05351.
Sarpong, S. Y., Bein, M. A., Gyamfi, B. A., & Sarkodie, S. A. (2020). The impact of tourism arrivals, tourism receipts and renewable energy consumption on quality of life: A panel study of Southern African region. Heliyon, 6(11), e05351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05351
Sarpong, Steve Yaw, et al. "The impact of tourism arrivals, tourism receipts and renewable energy consumption on quality of life: A panel study of Southern African region." Heliyon vol. 6,11 (2020): e05351. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05351
Sarpong SY, Bein MA, Gyamfi BA, Sarkodie SA. The impact of tourism arrivals, tourism receipts and renewable energy consumption on quality of life: A panel study of Southern African region. Heliyon. 2020 Nov 06;6(11):e05351. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05351. eCollection 2020 Nov. PMID: 33209996; PMCID: PMC7658656.
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Heliyon. 2020 Nov 06;6(11):e05351. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05351. eCollection 2020 Nov.

The impact of tourism arrivals, tourism receipts and renewable energy consumption on quality of life: A panel study of Southern African region.

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Steve Yaw Sarpong, Murad A Bein, Bright Akwasi Gyamfi, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, North Cyprus, Via Mersin 10, Turkey.
  2. Cyprus International University, Nicosia, North Cyprus, Via Mersin 10, Turkey.
  3. Nord University, Nordland, Norway.

PMID: 33209996 PMCID: PMC7658656 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05351

Abstract

Improving wellbeing and livelihoods exemplify the third Sustainable Development Goal. Literature related to the tourism-renewable energy-quality of life nexus is limited and lacks consensus. This study contributes to the debate and examines the influence of international tourism arrival (TA), real international tourism receipts (TR), and renewable energy consumption (REC) on quality of life (QoL) by using a panel of 8 Southern African countries spanning 1995-2017. The results found a significant positive and long-run relationship between TA, TR, and QoL. A significant negative effect was found between REC, trade openness (TO), and QoL while urbanization (Urb) had an insignificant negative impact on QoL. A unidirectional causal relationship was found running from QoL to TR and bidirectional causality between QoL and REC. Feedback causality was found between QoL and Urb and unidirectional causality from QoL to TO. The results imply that tourism is an effective economic tool for improving human development in Southern Africa.

© 2020 The Author(s).

Keywords: Economics; Energy; Energy economics; Quality of life; Renewable energy; Renewable energy resources; Tourism; Tourism arrivals; Tourism receipts

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