Resumen de Modelling country risk and uncertainty in small island tourism economics
Michael Mcalber, Riaz Shareef, Suhejla Hoti
Small island tourism economies (SITEs) differ significantly from each other in many respects, such as their size, location, political systems, historical experience, economic prospects, ecological fragility, and vulnerability to ethnic conflicts, crime and the threat of global terrorism. Given these differences, a careful analysis of country risk (or uncertainty) and its components for SITEs is of substantial interest to private tourism operators and foreign direct investors in the tourism and hospitality industry, tourism commissions and governments. This paper provides a comparison of country risk ratings, risk returns and their associated volatilities (or uncertainty) for six SITEs for which monthly data compiled by the International Country Risk Guide are available. Monthly economic, financial, political and composite country risk returns are used to estimate univariate symmetric and asymmetric models of uncertainty. The empirical results provide a comparative assessment of the country risk returns and uncertainty for the six SITEs.
