Tourism in a remote nordic region: Vat, internet, oil, english, distance, hofstede and christianity

What are the determinants of tourism, when treated as exports in national accounts? Is tourism sensitive to value-added taxation, internet access, oil, English, Christianity and regional trade agreements? Moreover, potential effects of the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions are tested; these are the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions of uncertainty, individualism, power distance, masculinity, and orientation. The relationship between variables in the time-period of 2003-2016 is analysed in this current research. I estimate tourism in logarithms to capture marginal effects of various factors on tourism. This current research obtains and tests international values for these factors empirically. The research seeks to answer if these factors affect the willingness of foreign tourists to visit.