관광수입에 대한 한류 및 경제지표의 영향

The purpose of this paper is to estimate tourism income and to examine the influence of Korean wave and economic indicators on it. For this purpose, we examined the impact of Korean wave, GDP, CPI and exchange rate on tourism income for foreign tourists from the USA., China and Japan who entered Korea. We used panel data from 1998 to 2014 including 17-year time-series data and cross-sectional data of tourism income, Korea wave and economic indicators. STATA13 program was used to perform panel data analysis. As a result of verifying the equilibrium distribution of error and time-series independence, it is found that the basic assumption for the panel linear regression model are satisfied. As a result of the series of the test for model selection, the best fit model was identified as the fixed effect model. As a result of the study, the Korean wave the GDP, and exchange rate have a significant impact on tourism income. However, CPI did not have a signigicant impact on tourism income. In this study, it is meaningful to analyze the influence of the Korean wave on the tourism income by using Korean wave scale as an objective index of the export of Korean wave contents.