Saint Akadiri, SeyiAlola, Andrew AdewaleUzuner, Gizem2019-11-242019-11-2420191368-35001747-7603https://hdl.handle.net/11363/1497https://doi.org/In this paper, we examine whether tourism predicts economic policy uncertainty or not in three regions of America, Europe, and Asia-pacific, using annual frequency panel data that consist of 12 countries in a multivariate Granger causality model that incorporates economic growth as an additional variable over the periods 1995-2016. Using the panel Granger causality method as advanced by Emirmahmutoglu and Kose [(2011). Testing for Granger causality in heterogeneous mixed panels. Economic Modelling, 28(3), 870-876.] that produces country-specific Granger causality test statistic and also controlled for heterogeneity in panel data, we found two-way causality relationship between ITAs and EPU in France, Ireland and United State, and one-way causality relationship from ITAs to EPU in Brazil, Canada, China and Germany and neutrality hypothesis in Chile, Japan, South Korea, Russia and Sweden, respectively. These results suggest tourism-economic policy uncertainty led-hypothesis and economic policy uncertainty-tourism led hypothesis with worthy policy implications for tourism destinations across the world.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United StatesEconomic policy uncertaintytourism arrivaleconomic growthpanel approachheterogeneous panelCAUSALITYTRADEDYNAMICSOPENNESSGROWTHArticle10.1080/13683500.2019.16876622-s2.0-85074989894Q1WOS:000495535900001Q1