On the negative impact of time zone differences on international tourism

Czaika, Mathias and Neumayer, Eric (2020) On the negative impact of time zone differences on international tourism. Current Issues in Tourism, 23 (10). 1181 - 1185. ISSN 1368-3500

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Abstract

This research note reports novel results on the negative effect of time zone differences on international tourism in a global sample of countries over the period 1995–2013. A gravity-type model, which has become standard in international tourism demand, is estimated with Pseudo-Poisson maximum likelihood, controlling for geographical distance and other potential confounders at the dyadic level in addition to origin-year and destination-year fixed effects. The effect of time zone differences is found to be substantively strong and approximately (log-)linear across the various hours of time zone difference, with an average negative effect of about 11.6% per hour of time difference.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcit20/current
Additional Information:	© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Divisions:	Geography and Environment
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure
Date Deposited:	05 Mar 2019 17:09
Last Modified:	26 Sep 2025 16:21
URI:	http://eprintstest.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/100202

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