When the mall is in the airport: Measuring the effect of the airport mall on passengers’ consumer behavior

This paper provides a new approach to evaluating the influence on passenger F&B consumption and expenditure of terminals that approximate to the concept of an airport shopping mall. Using a broad database of 37,226 passengers interviewed at eight different Spanish airports, including two Spanish...

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Autores: Castillo Manzano, José I., López Valpuesta, Lourdes, Sánchez Braza, Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/147436
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/147436
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2018.07.003
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Airport management
Non-aeronautical revenue
Airport shopping mall
Statistical causal inference
Propensity score matching
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Sumario:This paper provides a new approach to evaluating the influence on passenger F&B consumption and expenditure of terminals that approximate to the concept of an airport shopping mall. Using a broad database of 37,226 passengers interviewed at eight different Spanish airports, including two Spanish hub airports, Madrid-Barajas and Barcelona, with a methodology framed within statistical causal inference with Kernel and Radial matching, the results robustly demonstrate that passengers alter their consumption behavior in hub airport malls compared to how they behave at regional airports with a smaller commercial and F&B offer. Specifically, there is an increase of between 3.7 and 4.1% in the likelihood that hub passengers will make a consumption and between 1.2 and 1.3% in the likelihood that they will make a purchase, while mean per-passenger spending increases by 3.53€.