Does Tourism Consumption Behaviour Mirror Differences in Living Standards?

Cristina Bernini (), Maria Francesca Cracolici () and Cinzia Viroli ()
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Maria Francesca Cracolici: Business and Statistics
Cinzia Viroli: University of Bologna

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2017, vol. 134, issue 3, No 14, 1157-1171

Abstract: Abstract Based on the theoretical foundation of well-being measurement, the study explores differences in living standards by analysing the distribution of tourism expenditure. A mixture of regression models is used to explore the heterogeneity in tourism consumption by identifying groups of families with similar tourism consumption behaviour as a function of certain socio-demographic and economic factors. The empirical analysis, performed on Italian expenditure data, suggests that there are three different patterns of consumption behaviour conditional to the socio-demographic and economic covariates in the tourism market and that differences in tourism consumption between groups of households mirror inequalities in living standards.

Keywords: Living standards; Consumption heterogeneity; Tourism expenditure distribution; Mixture regression models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-016-1455-6

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