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Using annual global data for 2005\u20132025, the analysis combines digital marketing, tourism demand, booking-readiness, and planning-related indicators in a time-series modeling framework. Ordinary least squares models with HC3 (Heteroskedasticity-Consistent version 3) robust standard errors and lagged specifications are used to test the relationships among digital marketing intensity, tourism demand, digital transaction readiness, and capacity- and travel-related planning outcomes across pre-disruption, disruption, and recovery periods. The results show that digital marketing demand indicators are positively associated with tourism demand intensity, online booking readiness, and digital transaction capacity, while tourism demand intensity is positively linked to travel intensity and air-passenger throughput. Lagged digital marketing indicators also significantly predict subsequent planning-related outcomes, supporting their use as forward-looking inputs for simulation-based tourism planning. Moreover, the moderation analysis indicates that this predictive relationship is significantly moderated by the disruption and recovery regimes, with the link between lagged digital marketing and capacity pressure steepening during disruption and reversing sign during recovery. 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