Assessing the Economic Impact of Culture in English Market Towns: A Causal Chain Approach

Abstract

In assessing the economic impact of a cultural event or attraction, the number of visits caused by the event or attraction is the pivotal variable. In the instance of many visitors, the causal impact is neither absent nor complete, but partial. The authors develop a method of assessing directly the aggregate causal impact of a cultural event or attraction and apply this in four case studies of culture in market towns. There emerges a pattern in the way economic impact comes about.

High-speed rail, tourists’ destination choice and length of stay: A survival model analysis

“…As a result, DP cannot be calculated directly by means of expression (1). Nonetheless, Young et al (2010) put forward the following alternative expression:…”

“…The study is based on a survey of tourists visiting Costa Daurada (a coastal destination in Southern Catalonia) who arrived at the Camp de Tarragona HSR Station. The influence of the availability of HSR service on tourists' destination choices was addressed by means of a specific indicator put forward by Young et al (2010) which was used as explanatory variable, together with tourists' profiles, party structure or accommodation characteristics for the empirical analysis of the determinants of length of stay among tourists arriving by HSR. The estimations were made using a survival model.…”

Influencia de la alta velocidad ferroviaria en la elección del destino turístico según el origen de los viajeros. El caso de la Costa Dorada en Cataluña

“…Hemos aplicado un método probabilístico causal desarrollado por Young et al (2005), que permite determinar el efecto que la exposición a cierta información o productos (una estación de AVF) genera en la decisión de consumir dichos productos (escoger un determinado destino turístico). En estudios vinculados con el turismo, esta metodología fue aplicada por Fernandez Young y Young (2008) para analizar el efecto de las películas en las visitas de los turistas a determinados territorios, por Young et al (2010) para el turismo cultural asociado a los mercados en las ciudades, y por Saladié et al (2014) y Anton Clavé et al (2015b) para cuantificar la influencia ejercida por una línea aérea de bajo coste en la elección del destino turístico. Fuera del ámbito turístico, también es la metodología escogida por Saladié y Pla (2015) y Saladié y Santos-Lacueva (2016) para determinar el incremento en la probabilidad de mejora de la recogida selectiva de los residuos domésticos atribuible a las campañas de sensibilización.…”

Exploring Small Area Demand for Grocery Retailers in Tourist Areas

“…Many studies of visitor spend or visitor characteristics take place at an aggregate level (considering all forms of expenditure) (Craggs and Schofield, 2009), consider only a subset of visitors (such as Downward and Lumsdon (2000) who consider only day visitors within one destination; or Algere and Magdalena (2010) who consider only repeat visitors) or focus explicitly on visitor spend associated with particular short-term events (Young et al, 2010;Barquet et al, 2011;Bracalente et al, 2011). There are consequently very few studies that explicitly consider destination level spend on individual categories such as groceries (for one example that does include grocery shopping see Downward and Lumsdon (2003)).…”