Abstract
International tourism has been growing worldwide at substantial and sustainable rates in terms of both tourist arrivals and tourism receipts. It demonstrated broad economic significance for tourism destinations around the world. This review is carried out to describe factors determining international tourist flow to international tourist destinations. The study gives insights to improve international tourist arrivals and tourism receipts at tourism destinations worldwide by providing a comprehensive summary of the results of various works of literature on international tourist flow to researchers, policy makers and practitioners. The systematic review is conducted to provide objective, replicable, systematic, and comprehensive coverage of determinants of international tourist flow. The review process comprised framing questions for review, identifying relevant works, assessing the quality of studies, summarizing the evidence, and interpreting the findings. Factors determining international tourist flow are found to be mainly related to demand factors in generating region and supply factors in destinations. Socio-cultural factors, geographical, international mobility, demographic, technological, health risk, psychological and lifestyle, and peace and security factors significantly affect international tourist flow. Key words: Travel, tourist flow, international tourism, destination.
Highlights
Travel and tourism is the world‟s largest and most diverse service industry on which many countries rely as source of revenue, employment, private sector growth and investment
Selection criteria of pertinent works of literature involves year of publication (1990 to 2019); international travel exposure of tourists; cross-boundary tourist flow; literatures written in English language; scholarly works with at least one aforementioned keywords in the title, abstract or keywords; literatures which report outcome using objective measures; studies conducted in international tourism setting; and types of publications which includes journal articles, books, conference papers, dissertations, and working papers, which resulted in seventy-five scholarly works
International tourism demand is the core area of researches undertaken in the theme of factors affecting international tourism in general and international tourist flow in particular
Summary
Travel and tourism is the world‟s largest and most diverse service industry on which many countries rely as source of revenue, employment, private sector growth and investment. Besides generating foreign exchange earnings and alleviating the balance of payments problems encountered in many developing countries, international tourism generates employment, income, savings, investment, and economic growth (Lim, 1997; UNWTO, 2019; WTTC, 2018). For this reason, both the public and private sectors have channeled substantial resources into the tourism industry.
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