Empirical analysis of the travel and tourism sector competitiveness index on panel data in the Mena region

الملخص EN

Many writings have shown that the choice of a tourist destination varies according to a large number of factors and of different nature.

among the most important are price, accommodation conditions and quality of tourism services, natural and cultural resources and security climate.

the use of tourism competitiveness indices helps to identify the strengths and weaknesses of a destination compared to others, to give a country a sense of the tourism situation and to promote the sustainable development of the travel sector.

in this contribution, we are interested in studying the competitiveness index of the travel and tourism sector through some indicators that describe this concept by adopting a panel data approach under e-views software on a sample of 12 MENA countries from the world economic forum WEF database during a biennial period from 2007 to 2021.