A model of tourism destination choice: a theoretical and empirical analysis.

By H. Seddighi, Antonis L. Theocharous. 2002

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Abstract In recent years tourism has become one of the fastest growing sectors of the world economy and is widely recognised for its contribution to regional and national economic development. The main aim of the paper is to propose a methodological framework within which the impact of characteristics of a tourism product on foreign travel can be captured and analysed. This is achieved by combining the Lancasterian product characteristics approach with the Koppelman's consumer transportation model. Within the proposed model the characteristics of the tourism product/destination including quality of service, advertising and political instability are combined to generate a perception/feeling regarding the tourism destination in the mind of the tourists. In order to measure these perceptions/feelings and, hence, develop a preference ordering, the model is estimated by utilising a conditional Logit analysis. The analysis is based on primary data collected from tourists visiting Cyprus. The conditional Logit model generates the probability of revisit given the characteristics of tourists and the Cyprus tourism product. The paper extends further the Lancaster product characteristics framework as applied to tourism by Rugg (Rev. Econom. Stat. 55(1) (1973) 64), Morley (Ann. Tourism Res. 19 (1992) 250) and Papatheodorou (Ann. Tourism Res. 28 (2001) 164) by including the neglected but from any viewpoint important political instability characteristic that is attached to the tourist product of Cyprus. The inclusion of product characteristics/attributes in tourism analysis appear to strongly contribute towards the better understanding of travel choice behaviour.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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High Speed Rail and the tourism market: Evidence from the Madrid case study (2015, background): “The paper by Seddighi and Theocharous (2002), which analyzes the probability of revisiting Cyprus in terms of socio-demographic and destination characteristics, can be considered one of the most important papers in this field.”
TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL TOURISM: NEW EVIDENCE (2008, methodology): “In fact, we account for all the factors 16 Seddighi and Theocharous (2002), combining the Lancasterian product characteristics approach with Koppelman’s (1980) consumer transportation model, include the political instability characteristic into the model.”
Gaming Destination Images: Implications for Branding (2010, background): “Scholars have researched the role of image in tourism destination choice (Papatheodorou 2001; Seddighi and Theocharous 2002; Tapachai and Waryszak 2000; Woodside and Lysonski 1989), image variations due to awareness and familiarity of a destination (Milman and Pizam 1995), destination attractiveness”
Segmenting Markets by Travel Expenditure Patterns: The Case of International Visitors to Australia (2006, background): “…a given component of the trip bundle does not generate an immediate utility but is bearer of characteristics that indirectly generate utility: “Maximizing utility requires choosing a bundle of goods which generates the optimum bundle of characteristics” (Seddighi and Theochanous 2002, p. 478).”
Time for a Radical Reappraisal of Tourist Decision Making? Toward a New Conceptual Model (2016, methodology): “It was subsequently adopted and developed by others (e.g., Apostolakis and Jaffry 2005; Morley 1994; Papatheodorou 2001; Seddighi and Theocharous 2002).”
Factors Affecting Convention Participation Decision-Making: Developing a Measurement Scale (2008, background): “…consumer behavior and marketing (e.g., Assael 2001; Ajzen 2001; Dabholkar 1994; Bagozzi et al. 2002), tourism marketing (e.g., Um and Crompton 1992; Seddighi and Theocharous 2002; Sirakaya et al. 2001), and convention tourism (e.g., Rittichainuwat, Beck, and Lalopa 2001; Oppermann and Chon 1997;…”
Climate change and international tourism: a simulation study (2005, background): “Seddighi and Theocharous’ (2002) work follows on from that of Papatheodorou and Morley using a Logit analysis and focussing on the importance of political stability as a destination characteristic.”