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The expenditures of foreign visitors represent a major source of export income for the US; therefore, the recent declining trend of Chinese travelers to the US is a blow to her budget deficit. To investigate the underlying reasons for the observed decline in the trend, this research examines the effect of psychological factors on Chinese travelers' decision to travel to the US. Using monthly data from 2017 to 2022, the research employs structural VAR models along with spillover analysis to conduct the investigation. The paper discovers that feelings of uncertainty, mood, nationalistic retaliation, and sentiment can significantly influence the volume of Chinese tourist arrivals to the US. Moreover, results show that these psychological factors have no robust effect on the number of Chinese student arrivals to the US. The study concludes that reducing “anti-Asian hate crimes” and “gun violence” may be conducive to increasing Chinese student enrollment in US universities.
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International Journal of Tourism Research promotes and enhances research developments in the field of tourism. The journal provides an international platform for debate and dissemination of research findings whilst also facilitating the discussion of new research areas and techniques. IJTR continues to add a vibrant and exciting channel for those interested in tourism and hospitality research developments. The scope of the journal is international and welcomes research that makes original contributions to theories and methodologies. It continues to publish high quality research papers in any area of tourism, including empirical papers on tourism issues. The journal welcomes submissions based upon both primary research and reviews including papers in areas that may not directly be tourism based but concern a topic that is of interest to researchers in the field of tourism, such as economics, marketing, sociology and statistics. All papers are subject to strict double-blind (or triple-blind) peer review by the international research community.
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