The impact of ecotourism on achieving sustainable development : the case of a group of Islamic Cooperation countries

Abstract EN

The study aims to test the relationship between ecotourism and sustainable development, where the tourists number and the tourism revenues were identified as ecotourism variables while the gross domestic product was chosen as a sustainable development variable, and panel data analysis from 1995-2018 was used on a group of ten countries from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

The results of the study showed a direct correlation between the tourists number and the gross domestic product, as well as between the tourism revenues and the gross domestic product, and that the random- effects model was best suited for the sample countries of the study.