Sustainable development and tourism growth in an island economy: a dynamic investigation.

This empirical paper aims at investigating the dynamic impact of sustainable development on tourism growth for the case of the small island developing state of Mauritius. The study is done for the period 1980–2018. The vector error correction model is being used and the results point out that sustainable development variables, notably economic, social and environmental, have influenced tourism development. Furthermore, the results also endorse the presence of bi-directional causality and feedback effects in the tourism-economic growth model hence supporting both the tourism-led growth hypothesis and the economic-driven tourism growth hypothesis. Furthermore, tourism development is observed to contribute towards environmental degradation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]