Even though there is no causal relationship between tourism expansion and economic growth that can be found, it provides a reason to reflect on the effectiveness of tourism promotion strategies. The results of the causality provide governments with useful information to examine their economic development policy, to adjust priorities
regarding economic investment, and to boost national economic growth given limited resources. More resources should be preferentially allocated to the travel and tourism industry if the tourism-led economy hypothesis is supported. On the other hand,if evidence of economy-driven tourism growth exists, then it suggests more resources should be allocated to leading industries rather than the travel and tourism industry, and the tourism industry will in turn benefit from the resulting overall economic growth.