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This study examined the effects of sociodemographic, travel-related and psychographic variables on travel expenditures. The travel expenditure categories examined include lodging, meals and restaurants, attractions and festivals, entertainment, shopping, transportation and total expenditures. The results of the study provide a more comprehensive and holistic picture in the search of travel expenditure patterns based on multiple independent variables. This study reveals that, among the three groups of variables examined, income and trip-related characteristics were the most influential variables affecting tourism expenditures. Discussions and implications are also provided based on the study results.

The article provides an analysis of scholarly contributions to 11 hospitality and tourism refereed journals for the years 2002-2006. It presents the top 100 programs as ranked by instances of publications across 11 journals for a recent five-year period. For the five-year period, results indicate Hong Kong Polytechnic University in the top position based on sums of instances, authors and articles. Secondly, the researchers updated, modified and extended a previous study published by the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research for similar information for the years 1992-2001. Following the update, an additional 15-year aggregate snapshot of research output for top producing institutions provided a top 18 over the last 15year period. Next, researchers provide an updated analysis by contribution and world region among the specific journals with results indicating a large growth in the number of articles produced in Asia going from 6% of all publications over the former 10-year period from 1992 through 2001 to near 15% of published articles over the past five-year period from 2002 through 2006. The article concludes with suggestions for the extension of similar studies and provides implications for hospitality and tourism educators.

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Numerous studies have been conducted on consumers' information search prior to arrival at a destination. This study attempts to continue to fill a research gap focusing on travellers' information search behaviour for services not only before the trip but in transit to the destination and once at a destination. In particular, the research explores service-related decisions before and during a trip, the sources of information utilised, which include locals residing at a destination, and how demographic and trip purpose characteristics influence decision-making. Using the results of this study, practitioners and academics alike can design effective strategies for marketing to travellers.