THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY AND ECONOMIC FORCES IN PHILIPPINE DOMESTIC TOURISM: EVIDENCE FROM THE ARDL BOUNDS TESTING APPROACH
While traditional tourism studies often emphasize destination attractiveness and income, this research examined the role of institutional quality and macroeconomic determinants in driving domestic tourism expenditures in the Philippines from 2000 to 2023, using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) framework. The b...