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 statist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Ferrer Rosell, Berta, Coenders, Germà, Martínez Garcia, Esther
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/10157
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/10157
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave: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
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Sumario: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