Tourism demand in Spain: trip duration and budget structure, a comparison of low cost and legacy airline users

This thesis compares the behaviour of tourists arriving to Spain by low cost airlines or by legacy airlines, in terms of length of stay and travel budget allocation. It also segments low cost users according to travel budget composition (share allocated to transportation expenses, and to at-destinat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Ferrer Rosell, Berta
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:CBUC, CESCA
Repositorio:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/145438
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/145438
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Low cost tourism
Turisme de baix cost
Turismo de bajo coste
Ordered logit model
Model logit ordinal
Modelo logit ordinal
Lenght of stay
Durada de l'estada
Duración de la estada
Compositional data analysis
Anàlisi de dades composicionals
Análisis de datos composicionales
Markets segmentation
Segmentació de mercats
Segmentación de mercados
Tourist expenditure
Despesa del turista
Gastos del turista
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Sumario:This thesis compares the behaviour of tourists arriving to Spain by low cost airlines or by legacy airlines, in terms of length of stay and travel budget allocation. It also segments low cost users according to travel budget composition (share allocated to transportation expenses, and to at-destination expenses, both basic –accommodation and food– and discretionary –activities and shopping). Length of stay is analyzed with an ordered logit model to account for multimodality. For expenditure composition analysis, the compositional data analysis methodology is used. Both approaches are completely new to tourism research. A relevant and recurrent finding in this thesis are the small differences encountered between the users of both types or airline. The thesis makes original contributions both regarding the variables included and the methods used