Determinants of Multi-Destination Tourism Trips in Brazil

Glauber Eduardo de Oliveira Santos, Vicente Ramos and Javier Rey-Maquieira
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Glauber Eduardo de Oliveira Santos: Tourism and Environmental Economics Programme, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain; Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of São Paulo (IFSP), Rua Pedro Vicente, 625, Canindé, São Paulo SP, CEP 01109-010, Brazil
Vicente Ramos: Department of Applied Economics, University of the Balearic Islands, Edifici G.M. de Javellanos, Carretera De Valldemossa Km 7,5, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Javier Rey-Maquieira: Department of Applied Economics, University of the Balearic Islands, Edifici G.M. de Javellanos, Carretera De Valldemossa Km 7,5, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Tourism Economics, 2012, vol. 18, issue 6, 1331-1349

Abstract: Despite the relatively frequent occurrence of multi-destination tourism trips (MTTs), their determinants have been unsatisfactorily studied in the academic literature. The objective of this paper is to develop an analysis of the determinants of MTTs, assessing the theoretical propositions and empirical findings of previous studies. The authors use a large dataset of 183,000 international tourists who visited Brazil from 2004 to 2010. They employ a censored zero-inflated negative binomial model to overcome econometric deficiencies in previous studies. The set of explanatory variables used in preceding analyses is substantially extended to include additional determinants such as level of education, type of accommodation and season. Some of the findings throw light on conflicting theoretical arguments in the literature, especially those regarding the effects of party size and monetary and time constraints. The authors find a qualitative difference between single and multiple destination trips. Finally, tourists' decisions to take single or multiple destination trips are shown to be different and somehow detached from the decision on how many destinations to visit.

Keywords: multi-destination travel; destination choice; tourism demand; negative binomial model; tourism in Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.5367/te.2012.0170

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