Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272580 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15953
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Can international tourist arrivals change residents' attitudes towards immigrants and immigration? We discuss possible underlying mechanisms and provide the first evidence on this question using data from the European Social Survey (2002-2019; n=333,505). We find that, as tourist arrivals grow, residents become more positive towards immigration in Eastern Europe. In Western Europe, the relationship tends to turn from positive to negative at relatively high levels of tourism. The instrumental variable analysis suggests that incoming tourism has a positive causal effect on attitudes towards immigration in both Western and Eastern Europe. Overall, our study reveals an overlooked dimension of the tourism-migration nexus and highlights the role that international tourism may play in shaping attitudes towards immigration and, through these attitudes, immigration policy and flows, immigrant integration and more open and inclusive societies in tourism-receiving countries.
Subjects: 
tourism
attitudes towards immigration
inclusion
Europe
instrumental variable analysis
JEL: 
J61
L83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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