Digital tourism: mobile phones, internet and tourism in Africa
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Ogechi Adeola [1] ; Olaniyi Evans [1]
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[1] Pan-Atlantic University
Pan-Atlantic University
Nigeria
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- Localización: Tourism recreation research, ISSN 0250-8281, Vol. 44, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 190-202
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This study examines the linear and nonlinear effects of mobile phones and internet on tourism inAfrica for the period 1996–2017 using system general method of moments which accounts forcross-sectional dependence. The study shows that mobile penetration and internet usage havesignificant negative effects on tourism while squared mobile penetration and squared internetusage have significant positive effects. The empiricalfindings are consistent with a non-linear (orquadratic) relationship between mobile penetration, internet usage and tourism, where mobilepenetration and internet usage have significant negative relationship with tourism only to acertain point, after which they become a boost for tourism. The causality analyses suggest theexistence of uni-directional causality from mobile penetration to tourism and bidirectionalcausality between squared mobile penetration and tourism. Also, there is bi-directional causalitybetween internet usage, squared internet usage, and tourism. This indicates that mobilepenetration and internet usage stimulate tourism which, in turn, boosts internet usage evenfurther in these countries
