STOCHASTIC MODELING: A Three-Stage Tourist Choice Process
By Juan Luis Nicolau, Francisco J. Más. 2005
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Abstract This study analyzes a multistage tourist choice process which includes three basic decisions: first taking a vacation; second visiting foreign vs. domestic destinations, and third taking multi- vs. single-destination vacations. Various research hypotheses relating to the impact of a number of personal characteristics on these decisions are stated. The methodology uses multinomial logit models with random coefficients estimated by hierarchical Bayesian procedures. The empirical application is carried out in Spain and leads to the conclusion that personal characteristics relating to the chosen destination, personal restrictions, and sociodemographic and psychographic characteristics are determinants of these decisions and that the nested and nonindependent character of the three decisions reveals a multistage decisionmaking process.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation
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- Time for a Radical Reappraisal of Tourist Decision Making? Toward a New Conceptual Model (2016, background): “Some have recognized that tourists, faced with too much information, decompose decision making into manageable units or steps (Eymann and Ronning 1997) that include an initial decision to take a holiday followed by motivation type and then destination (Nicolau and Mas 2005, 2008).”
- Economic crisis and tourism expenditure cutback decision (2014, result): “Similar results have also been shown by Kozak (2002) or Nicolau and Más (2005) in relation to variables such as ‘to increase knowledge of new places’, ‘to visit historical and cultural places’ and ‘to meet local people’.”