British tourism demand elasticities in Mediterranean countries

Gatt, William; Falzon, Joseph

doi:10.1080/00036846.2014.934432

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“…Several empirically oriented studies have emerged in the literature that adopt a choice modelling approach with improved data on a range of countries and regions worldwide that successfully identified the determinants of tourism demand. For example, noteworthy contributions include Bakkal (1991); De Mello et al (2002); Divisekera (2003); Vogt (2008); Song et al (2012); and Gatt and Falzon (2014). Research on factors that determine tourism demand across various nations has undoubtedly strengthened over time as previous studies reveal robust results of the determinants of tourism demand such as Gatt and Falzon (2014), Morley et al (2014), Zhang (2015) and Tavares and Leitao (2016).…”

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“…For example, noteworthy contributions include Bakkal (1991); De Mello et al (2002); Divisekera (2003); Vogt (2008); Song et al (2012); and Gatt and Falzon (2014). Research on factors that determine tourism demand across various nations has undoubtedly strengthened over time as previous studies reveal robust results of the determinants of tourism demand such as Gatt and Falzon (2014), Morley et al (2014), Zhang (2015) and Tavares and Leitao (2016). Sinclair (1998) and Song et al (2012) give a comprehensive review of demand models for tourism studies.…”

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Using a consumer choice model to explain the effect of the newly developed oxford COVID-19 government stringency measure on hotel occupancy rates

Gani

2022

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In response to the unexpected outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), governments worldwide implemented stringent measures to contain its transmission. This study investigates the effect of the stringency of COVID-19 outbreak government measures on hotel occupancy rates in the world’s top ten visitor destination countries. The analysis in this study draws upon the recently developed novel indicator, government stringency, compiled systematically by the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker for March 2020 to March 2021. By adopting a structural consumer choice model, the panel estimation procedure is applied to assess the effect of government stringency on hotel occupancy rates. The findings revealed a statistically significant adverse effect of government stringency on hotel occupancy rates. The findings suggest that although government containment measures had the desired effect of reducing transmissions of COVID-19 and a crucial predictor of hotel occupancy rates in the top ten tourist destination countries, it adversely impacted the tourism hospitality sector through reduced demand for hotel accommodation as occupancy rates plunged. This study's analysis supports the consumer choice modelling approach as it can be considered a relevant analytical framework that is satisfactorily able to explain the adverse effects of governments containment measures on hotel occupancy rates. This research contributes to the tourism modelling literature and complements previous studies in providing an additional understanding of the effect of government stringency measures based on the newly established Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker Database within a coherent modelling framework.

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Using a consumer choice model to explain the effect of the newly developed oxford COVID-19 government stringency measure on hotel occupancy rates

Gani

2022

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“…Theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of the demand for tourist services were dealt with, among others, by the following authors: Cortés-Jiménez and Blake (2011), Schiff and Becken (2011), Nelson, Dickey and Smith (2011), Wu, Li and Song (2012, Baležentis et al (2012), Konovalova andVidishcheva (2013), Fuleky, Zhao andBonham (2014), Gatt and Falzon (2014), Untong et al (2014Untong et al ( , 2015, Peng et al (2015), Martins, Gan and Ferreira-Lopes (2017), Dogru, Mariyono (2017), Sirakaya-Turk and Crouch (2017), Khoshnevis Yazdi and Khanalizadeh (2017), Falk and Lin (2018), Fredman and Wikström (2018) and Kumar and Kumar (2020).…”

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Econometric examination of the impact of income on household expenditures for package holidays in Serbia

Hanić¹,

Bugarčić²,

Lukić³

2021

EurJ Appl Econ

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The subject of this paper is the econometric examination of the impact of income on expenditures, i.e. on the demand for package holidays of households in Serbia. The aim of this paper is to quantify the impact of income on household expenditures for package holidays in the country and abroad on the basis of alternative functional forms of Engel curves and elasticities derived from them. The starting research hypothesis is that with the increase in household income, the share of expenditures for tourist arrangements in total household expenditures in Serbia remains approximately unchanged. As sources of data, Household Budget Surveys in Serbia were used, which were conducted every year, starting from 2006 (until 2019). Based on the different functional forms of Engel curves, the parameters of the impact of income on expenditures for package arrangements were estimated, and then income elasticities were estimated. In addition to the impact of income, the impact of qualitative characteristics of households and especially household heads on expenditures for tourist arrangements was examined. With the help of appropriate statistical tests, the basic research hypothesis was proven and the influence of socio-economic and demographic characteristics of households on the demand for package holidays was quantified.

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“…In addition, to the best of the authors´ knowledge, this is the fi rst recent study to consider the Spanish Mediterranean coasts as a whole. Most previous studies have tried to explain the demand in different Mediterranean countries (Gatt & Falzon, 2014;Papatheodorou, 1999). Other studies on Spain analyze the major tourist centers of the Mediterranean, especially the Balearic Islands (Garín-Muñoz & Montero-Martín, 2007;Rosselló, Aguiló, & Riera, 2005;Aguiló, Riera, & Roselló, 2005).…”

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A nonlinear dynamic model to international tourism demand in Spanish Mediterranean coasts

Pina¹,

González-Martínez²

2018

E+M

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Spanish Mediterranean coasts are a consolidated tourist destination and enjoy growing demand. These coasts receive the highest number of international arrivals in Spain. This paper has been developed to gain a better knowledge of the determinants of this international tourism demand. A nonlinear dynamic model that analyses how previous tourists can affect tourism demand decisions is proposed. This nonlinear dynamic specifi cation extends the standard dynamic equation for tourism demand to include interaction effects between previous tourists and two destination characteristics: the quality of the tourism services and tourist congestion. Both characteristics are important to defi ne the reputation or attractiveness of the destination. We test the model using panel data from the 11 provinces which make up the Spanish Mediterranean coasts, and the 7 European countries which are the main origin markets for the period 2005-2015. The system GMM procedure is applied to estimate the econometric model. The econometric results show evidence of strong persistence in international tourism demand. Previous tourists have an important positive and non-constant effect, and this effect is positively infl uenced by the quality of the tourism services, and negatively by tourist congestion. Therefore, the effect of previous tourists is not constant but varies across provinces and over time. This effect is stronger in provinces with high quality tourism services and lower congestion. Additionally, the impact of previous tourists has not remained constant over time, but has increased in the Mediterranean provinces since 2005. The investments realized in quality and quantity of hotel services during this period have enhanced their reputation.

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British tourism demand elasticities in Mediterranean countries

Cited by 7 publications

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Using a consumer choice model to explain the effect of the newly developed oxford COVID-19 government stringency measure on hotel occupancy rates

Using a consumer choice model to explain the effect of the newly developed oxford COVID-19 government stringency measure on hotel occupancy rates

Econometric examination of the impact of income on household expenditures for package holidays in Serbia

A nonlinear dynamic model to international tourism demand in Spanish Mediterranean coasts

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