Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.37741/t.73.3.4

Does Tourism Development Improve the Quality of Life in Kazakhstan?

Khusen Ibragimov orcid.org/0000-0002-3401-8474 ; Silk Road International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage Department of Tourism, Samarkand, Uzbekistan;University of Aveiro Department of Applied Economics, Aveiro, Portugal *
Ana Belén Ramón-Rodríguez ; Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, Department of Applied Economic Analysis, University of Alicante, Campus San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain
José Francisco Perles-Ribesa ; Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, Department of Applied Economic Analysis, University of Alicante, Campus San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain
José Ramos Pires Manso ; Research Center in Business Sciences, Department of Management and Economics the University of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal

* Corresponding author.

Abstract

This article examines whether tourism development improves the quality of life and boosts Kazakhstan's economy.
To investigate this, we employed time series analysis, specifically cointegration and Granger non-causality tests,
to variables representing Kazakhstan's quality of life, tourism development, and economic growth. The results
show that quality of life and tourist development in Kazakhstan are cointegrated. Moreover, the analysis identifies unidirectional links extending from quality of life to tourism development, indicating a Granger causality
from quality of life to tourism development, but not vice versa. Kazakhstan's economic expansion does not
affect tourism or quality of life.

Keywords

quality of life; tourism receipts; economic growth; co-integration; Granger causality; error correction; Kazakhstan

Hrčak ID:

333707

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/333707

Publication date:

15.7.2025.

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