Measuring and Analysing Domestic Tourism: The Importance of an Origin and Destination Matrix

Teresa Guardia Gálvez, Juan Muro () and María Jesús Such Devesa
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Teresa Guardia Gálvez: Instituto de Estudios Turísticos, Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio, C/Lázaro Galdiano 6, 28036 Madrid, Spain
María Jesús Such Devesa: Department of Statistics, Economic Structure and International Economic Organization, Faculty of Economics and Management, Universidad de Alcalá, Antiguo Colegio de Mínimos, Plaza de la Victoria 2, 28802 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain

Tourism Economics, 2014, vol. 20, issue 3, 451-472

Abstract: In this study, using the Spanish domestic and outbound tourism survey FAMILITUR, an inter-regional tourism flows analysis is carried out for the period 2004–2008. The degree of concentration of origin–destination trips is calculated in order to obtain the market share of the distribution of regional trips. An intra-regional perspective is also presented to confirm other divergences in terms of the region's capacity of attraction for its own residents. Finally, a ‘gravity’ model of domestic travel flows between the 17 Spanish autonomous communities is estimated to characterize the variables that affect Spaniards' tourism flows.

Keywords: FAMILITUR; domestic tourism flows; gravity model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.5367/te.2013.0286

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