Determinants of Tourist Expenditure: A Review of Microeconometric Models

Brida, Juan Gabriel; Scuderi, Raffaele

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“…For a validation of such findings they can be triangulated by comparing results with those from case studies at different sites (Decrop 1999). Brida, Scuderi (2012), however, point out the problems of generalizing such empirical findings, as different models, dependent variables and regressors using inter alia different scales of measure are employed. Mak et al (1977a) showed, furthermore, that different spending measurement methods (spending diaries vs. recall after their return home) lead to different results.…”

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Economic effects of tourism and its influencing factors

Mayer

Vogt

2016

Zeitschrift Für Tourismuswissenschaft

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The economic relevance of tourism has been proven by numerous studies using various theoretical constructs and methodological approaches. This introduction to the special issue provides an overview of the different concepts of the economic effects of tourism and distinguishes their most relevant influencing factors. Often overlooked influences are the geographical scale and the cost side of tourism. A special focus of this paper lies on a further determinant of economic impact of utmost importance: visitor spending. The role of visitors' expenditure behavior is comprehensively reviewed using an extensive literature 170Marius Mayer, Luisa Vogt base. Thus, we are able to identify the most important driving factors of visitor expenditure in tourism in a generalizable and systematic way.

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Economic effects of tourism and its influencing factors

Mayer

Vogt

2016

Zeitschrift Für Tourismuswissenschaft

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“…Wang and Davidson (2010) found 27 studies that used expenditure as the measure of individuals' demand for tourism. The review of Brida and Scuderi (2013) specifically focused on the use of microeconometric models and analysed 86 studies from 1977 to early 2012 where expenditure was taken as dependent variable.…”

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“…Nevertheless, as already stressed, no past contributions have studied the determinants of the spending of tourists visiting museums. Moreover, as the review of literature by Brida and Scuderi (2013) reports, studies on the Notes: * This variable was taken into consideration only for MART museum due to the large number of missing in ÖTZI dataset. NR = Not Reported; Ot.…”

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Visitors to Two Types of Museums: Do Expenditure Patterns Differ?

2013

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Abstract:The authors study the determinants of the expenditure behaviour of visitors to two types of museums. Ad hoc surveys were conducted between June and September 2011 of visitors to the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology and the Museum of Modern and Contemporaneous Art of Trento and Rovereto (MART). These are the two principal museums in the Italian provinces of Bolzano and Trento. The double-hurdle model is used via the Heien and Wessels two-step estimator. This procedure splits the process of spending decision into the stages of 'selection' and 'outcome', and also results in consistent estimates. The findings highlight two distinct profiles. The spending of visitors to the modern art museum is positively related to its cultural interest, whereas the expenditure profile of the archaeological museum visitors is more 'generalist'.Keywords: visitors' expenditure; museums; double-hurdle model; spending behaviour C19; D12; L83 Museums are the most popular cultural attractions (McKercher, 2004), followed by art galleries and monuments. Their unique cultural role is built on the creation of new understandings of the past and the reaffirmation of an identity in time and space (McIntosh and Prentice, 1999), which is often unavailable elsewhere (Graburn, 1983(Graburn, , 1998Tufts and Milne, 1999). For a long time This research was supported by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano project 'Le attrazioni culturali e naturali come motore dello sviluppo turistico. Un'analisi del loro impatto economico, sociale e culturale', and by the Free University of Bolzano projects 'Determinants of tourist expenditure: theory and microeconometric models' and 'Museum visitors: a comparative socio-economic analysis'.

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“…Such classic approaches are common also in other fields of tourism studies, such as the ones on the determinants of tourist expenditure (see Brida and Scuderi, 2013). The model supposes that a museum's visitor i from a set of n agents maximizes her utility by choosing to visit a tourist site j = 1,..., J in a number of y ij times, and consuming a set g = g i1 ,..., g ir ( ) of quantities of other r goods.…”

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The behaviour of repeat visitors to museums: review and empirical findings

2013

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This study presents a theoretical and operational framework for analyzing repeat visit to museums. Starting from the literature on repeat visit in tourism, the specificities of these cultural attractions are made explicit through a review of theoretical and applied works. Consistently with previous contributors, the paper suggests that the analysis of actual past behaviours has to be preferred to the one of attitudes. The application of proper econometric models is also remarked in order to put into account individual profiles. Information coming from three techniques is then used in an integrated way in order to provide a more comprehensive view of the phenomenon. Evidence from an ad hoc survey suggests the necessity to give a greater attention to perceived cultural value during the visit, promoting cultural events during the week and addressed to children, and taking care of those visitors that come from far places also through an integrated tourist supply.

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Determinants of Tourist Expenditure: A Review of Microeconometric Models

Cited by 56 publications

References 11 publications

Economic effects of tourism and its influencing factors

Economic effects of tourism and its influencing factors

Visitors to Two Types of Museums: Do Expenditure Patterns Differ?

The behaviour of repeat visitors to museums: review and empirical findings

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