Jurnal Ekonomi & Keuangan Islam
Volume 5 No. 2, July 2019

The influence of macroeconomics and population in country of origin on tourist arrivals to Indonesia

Rachmania Nurul Fitri Amijaya (Faculty of Economics and Bussiness, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Mohammad Yusron Sholikhin (Faculty of Economics and Bussiness, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Bayu Arie Fianto (Faculty of Economics and Bussiness, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
02 Aug 2019

Abstract

This study aims giving an evaluation to develop the government and tourism agencies performance, which provides services, facilities, and infrastructures, whom Muslim-friendly, to attract the interest of Muslim tourist, that contributes to economic growth in Indonesia. It uses quantitative methods to examine the influence of macroeconomy and population in country of origin towards tourist arrivals to Indonesia. Regression panel data is used to examine the combination of time series from 2012-2017, and 5 countries from OIC, become cross-section data. It can be concluded that macroeconomy is not significant, while the population is significant towards Muslim tourist arrivals with 96% level influence. Therefore, the increasing of population from country of origin will rise tourist arrivals to Indonesia, which contributes to economic growth in Indonesia.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JEKI

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

AIMS Jurnal Ekonomi dan Keuangan Islam (JEKI) covers in detail a large number of topics related to Islamic Economics and Islamic Finance, comprising the latest empirical studies, country-specific studies, policy evaluations on Islamic economics and comparative international Islamic finance. This ...