IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aej/apecjn/v20y2013i1p80-98.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Competitive Advantage in Tourism of Southeast Asian Countries

Author

Listed:
  • Akarapong Untong

    (Division of Tourism, Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand)

Abstract

The competitive advantage in tourism of the countries in Southeast Asia was assessed by using coverage ratio and revealed comparative advantage (RCA). Static and dynamic analyses were applied to the data of tourism services export during 2002-2010. The results show that Cambodia, Laos PDR, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam had competitive advantages, i.e. these countries gain the surpluses more than that of the region’s. Thailand had the highest specialization in Southeast Asia but declining. Malaysia had the highest specialization growth rate followed by Cambodia and Singapore. The tourism export of these three countries declined but at a slower rate than that of the whole region. Thailand as the regional leader in tourism should forge a stronger partnership in tourism with Southeast Asian countries. It should also enhance market promotion in the region.

Suggested Citation

  • Akarapong Untong, 2013. "Competitive Advantage in Tourism of Southeast Asian Countries," Applied Economics Journal, Kasetsart University, Faculty of Economics, Center for Applied Economic Research, vol. 20(1), pages 80-98, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:aej:apecjn:v:20:y:2013:i:1:p:80-98
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.journal.eco.ku.ac.th/upload/document/eng/20130504072904.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Tourism; competitive advantage; specialization; Southeast Asia;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • F19 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Other
    • C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aej:apecjn:v:20:y:2013:i:1:p:80-98. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chatrat Hemmawat (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/feckuth.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.