Tourism expenditure patterns in China

Vera Shanshan Lin, Rui Mao and Haiyan Song ()

Annals of Tourism Research, 2015, vol. 54, issue C, 100-117

Abstract: Using China’s urban household survey data for 2002–2009, this study compares the impacts of the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of urban household expenditure on tourism in different age cohorts. The life cycle age profiles of group-tour and non-group tour expenditures are obtained by decomposing total household expenditure. The results show that the age profile of total tourism expenditure is hump-shaped, which conforms to consumers’ income discretionary expenditure cycles. The age profile of group-tour expenditure is hump-shaped whereas that of non-group tour expenditure is S-shaped, corresponding to the substitution of group and non-group tours as children grow older. The implications are discussed in the context of tourism marketing with a view to providing useful segmentation information for tourism decision makers.

Keywords: Urban household survey; Socio-demographic and economic characteristics; Hodrick-Prescott filter; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2015.07.001

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