Impact of Socio-Demographics, Fuel Price and Airfare on the Domestic Overnight Travel Decision in Australia

Kwok Pan Pang
Additional contact information
Kwok Pan Pang: Tourism Research Australia, Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, Canberra, Australia., Australia

Tourism Economics, 2014, vol. 20, issue 6, 1297-1318

Abstract: Domestic overnight travel is one of the most significant sectors in the Australian tourism industry. Understanding the extent to which the crucial factors influence tourists' choice of overnight trip can be a key to successful marketing and strategic planning in the domestic travel industry. To understand the characteristics of the domestic overnight tourists, this paper analyses the data by means of a proposed new impact analysis approach, which overcomes some limitations of the conventional impact analysis approach. It also investigates how socio-demographic factors, fuel price and domestic airfares affect the probability of tourists opting for domestic overnight trips. Impact analysis is a method for analysing the association of the impact factor with the response variable in terms of estimated probability. This research demonstrates that household income, country of birth, life-cycle stage and home state are four of the most significant categories that generate the highest maximum impact on the overnight trip decision.

Keywords: impact analysis; domestic overnight travel; socio-demographic factors; automotive fuel price; domestic airfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.5367/te.2013.0341 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:toueco:v:20:y:2014:i:6:p:1297-1318

DOI: 10.5367/te.2013.0341

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Tourism Economics
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().