Tourism's contribution as an export industry to stimulate foreign trade : an econometrics study of a sample of Arab countries during the period (2000-2017)‎ by using panel data

الملخص EN

This study aims to try to know the status of tourism as an export industry in the Arab countries under study, by using cross-sectional data models (panel data) for the period (2000-2017).

And to know the extent of its contribution to activating foreign trade, where three independent variables were used and the degree of trade openness as a dependent variable.

Based on the results of estimating the model, the study concluded that there is a positive correlation between the rate of tourism openness and openness to foreign trade, and an inverse correlation between tourism revenues and the rate of openness to trade, As for the number of inbound tourists, it has no bearing on the activation of foreign trade.