Difference in the relationship between tourism growth and gender inequality in East Asia Pacific and South Asian countries

ABSTRACT As gender equity is crucial to tourism sustainability, this paper examines how tourism and other socioeconomic factors affect gender inequality in East Asia Pacific and South Asia countries. First, by dividing the countries into two regions, we could study the relationship between the variables for countries with different geographic locations and socioeconomic cultures and see how it varies. Second, it examines the nonlinear nexus of tourism growth and gender inequality by fitting curved lines for each quantile using a D-vine copula-based quantile regression approach which improved the accuracy of estimated relationships. Finally, the nonlinear analysis revealed that the relations between gender inequality and tourism is not unidirectional; it changes direction depending on the region's level of tourism development and socio-economic-geographic characteristics.