Tourists' Expenditure Behaviour: The Influence of Satisfaction and the Dependence of Spending Categories

Marta Disegna and Linda Osti
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Marta Disegna: Department of Accounting, Finance & Economics, Faculty of Management, Bournemouth University, Executive Business Centre, 89 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, BH8 8EB, UK
Linda Osti: Competence Centre in Tourism Management and Tourism Economics (TOMTE) and School of Economics and Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazzetta dell'Università , 39031 Brunico (Bolzano), Italy

Tourism Economics, 2016, vol. 22, issue 1, 5-30

Abstract: A review of the literature shows that the relationship between satisfaction and tourism expenditure, as well as the dependence among different tourist expenditure categories, are under-researched topics. The aim of this study is twofold: first, to investigate the influence on tourism expenditure of tourists' satisfaction with the destination, correcting for the effect of some socio-demographic and trip-related variables; second, to study the dependence among tourist expenditure on the different tourist categories that create the overall expenditure for the trip. This study focuses on an analysis of the expenditure behaviour of a sample of international visitors who travelled in an area around the Dolomites in Northern Italy, adopting the double-hurdle model with the Heien and Wessells estimator. In discussing the results, policy implications and managerial issues for tourism destinations are presented.

Keywords: tourist expenditure; tourist satisfaction; double–hurdle model; spending behaviour; dependence among expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.5367/te.2014.0410

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