The impact of COVID-19 on tourists’ length of stay and daily expenditures

José F Baños-Pino, David Boto-García, Eduardo Del Valle and Inés Sustacha

Tourism Economics, 2023, vol. 29, issue 2, 437-459

Abstract: This study evaluates the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourists’ length of stay and daily expenditures at a destination. The paper compares detailed microdata for visitors to a Northern Spanish region in the summer periods of 2019 (pre-pandemic) and 2020 (after the pandemic outbreak). We estimate the pandemic-induced impacts on the length of stay and expenditures per person for several categories using regression adjustment, inverse probability weighting regression and propensity score matching. We find clear evidence of a drop in the length of stay of around 1.26 nights, representing a 23.8% decline. We also show that, although total expenditures per person and day have remained constant, there has been a change in the allocations for categories in the tourism budget.

Keywords: COVID-19; travel patterns; inverse probability weighting; propensity score matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/13548166211053419

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