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Determinants in tourist expenditure composition: the role of airline types

The reduction in transportation costs when travelling with a low-cost airline (LCA) seems to have modified the composition of the trip budget. An understanding of expenditure composition when comparing LCA and legacy airline travellers is vital for destination marketers. Using micro official statistics data for air travellers to Spain in 2010 and the compositional data analysis (CODA) methodology, this study analyses the determinants of trip budget composition and its differences between airline types. The authors consider transportation expenses, as well as basic (accommodation and food) and discretionary (activities, shopping, etc) at-destination expenses. Log-ratios of budget share are fitted to a MANOVA, with travellers’ attributes as explanatory factors along with the moderating effect of the airline type. Among the findings are that high-income LCA travellers spend relatively more at the destination, LCA tourists travelling with friends have a larger share of discretionary expenses, and highly educated travellers have a larger share of discretionary expenses for both airline types

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Author: Ferrer Rosell, Berta
Coenders, Germà
Martínez Garcia, Esther
Abstract: The reduction in transportation costs when travelling with a low-cost airline (LCA) seems to have modified the composition of the trip budget. An understanding of expenditure composition when comparing LCA and legacy airline travellers is vital for destination marketers. Using micro official statistics data for air travellers to Spain in 2010 and the compositional data analysis (CODA) methodology, this study analyses the determinants of trip budget composition and its differences between airline types. The authors consider transportation expenses, as well as basic (accommodation and food) and discretionary (activities, shopping, etc) at-destination expenses. Log-ratios of budget share are fitted to a MANOVA, with travellers’ attributes as explanatory factors along with the moderating effect of the airline type. Among the findings are that high-income LCA travellers spend relatively more at the destination, LCA tourists travelling with friends have a larger share of discretionary expenses, and highly educated travellers have a larger share of discretionary expenses for both airline types
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/2072/295526
Language: eng
Publisher: IP Publishing
Rights: Tots els drets reservats. Reproduced by permission
Subject: Low-cost airline
Anàlisi multivariable
Multivariate analysis
Línies aèries de baix cost
Turisme de baix cost -- Espanya -- Models economètrics
Turisme -- Espanya -- Mètodes estadístics
Turisme -- Espanya -- Models economètrics
Turisme de baix cost -- Espanya -- Mètodes estadístics
Low-cost tourism -- Spain -- Econometric models
Low-cost tourism -- Spain -- Statistical methods
Tourism -- Spain -- Econometric models
Tourism -- Spain -- Statistical methods
Title: Determinants in tourist expenditure composition: the role of airline types
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Repository: Recercat

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