Determinants of the spending of sporting tourists: The case of attendees at professional basketball

Barandela, Jesyca Salgado; Barajas, Angel; Sánchez-Fernández, Patricio

doi:10.1016/j.iedeen.2018.05.001

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“…Because it is virtually impossible to visit Madeira as a tourist without incurring some expenditure, the dependent variable in this study is necessarily non-zero. It has widely been argued in the literature that in such circumstances, OLS regression is inappropriate (Hung et al, 2012;Santos and Vieira, 2012;Salgado-Barandela et al, 2018;Sharma et al, 2020;Thrane, 2015;Wu et al, 2013), although a large number of papers still rely on OLS (Brida and Scuderi, 2013). One of the most frequently employed econometric methods has, therefore, been the Tobit model (Barquet et al, 2011;Brida et al, 2013aBrida et al, , 2013bBrida et al, , 2013cBuning et al, 2016;Disegna and Osti, 2016) which, as a censored method, is considered to be better suited to handling dependent variables constrained by both lower and upper limits.…”

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Determinants of visitors’ expenditure across a portfolio of events

Almeida

Garrod

2021

Tourism Economics

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Destinations are increasingly recognising the advantages of managing their calendar of events as a strategic portfolio. Currently, however, there is no accepted, workable and proven technique for identifying the most efficient variable(s) to employ as a basis for strategic intervention. This study develops a spare regression model, based on the LASSO method, to select an efficient subset of determinants of visitor expenditure across five annual events taking place in Madeira, Portugal. The results indicate that event attendees’ income, length of stay and travel party size are significant determinants of total expenditure across all the events. Adopting strategic measures to influence these variables, if duly implemented at the portfolio level, can enable the cross-leveraging of additional expenditure that would be inaccessible to the destination if the Events were acting independently of one another. This could, in turn, enable the destination to use its events efficiently to enhance its overall competitiveness.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Determinants of visitors’ expenditure across a portfolio of events

Almeida

Garrod

2021

Tourism Economics

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“…The large number of fans in this sport has contributed to branding given the very nature of basketball and its events at both national and international levels. Although basketball influence is lower compared to some sports, including football, in national and international arenas, its rich history and culture and its specific audience have provided a basis for its impact on Iran sports industry (20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25).…”

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Identifying the Internal Factors and Challenges in Branding of Iran Basketball League

Rezaei

Sajjadi

Elahi

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Background. The clubs of the premier league and the basketball federation need to attract and retain fans and sponsors in order to earn financial revenues, through the proper model of branding, to be of interest to the media and customers. Objectives. Thus, the purpose of this study was to identify the internal factors and challenges in the branding of the Iranian basketball league. Methods. This research based on purpose is practical and based on field research is a qualitative research type. The statistical population of this study consisted of knowledgeable experts in the field of brand and basketball sport. Based on snowball sampling method, to the extent of reaching the theoretical saturation, 19 individuals were selected as a statistical sample. In this study, the data collection tool was a qualitative interview. Grounded theory was used to collect and analyze data. Results. Totally 89 tokens were identified in the open source coding process, that in the first stage, coding was classified into 11 classes in terms of subject and concept closeness. Also, results showed that the factors and challenges of the branding in Iranian Basketball League were three main factors, such as the philosophy and nature of basketball and the nature of sport. Conclusion. Based on our results, identification of the internal branding factors and challenges of the Iranian Basketball League was recognized and the proposed model was presented based on identified cases at three levels of operational, intermediate and strategic.

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“…Some authors have highlighted that, in comparison to youth events, masters sports events may generate relatively high economic impacts for the hosting communities because they tend to attract more affluent participants who often travel together with their families or friends (Mules and Faulkner 1996;Gratton et al 2000). Although older participants traveling with children observably spend more at sport tourism events (Salgado-Barandela et al 2018), very few published academic studies have specifically examined the economic impact of masters sports events. In one of the few pieces of research on the economic impact of masters sports events, Ryan and Lockyer (2001) analyzed the spending behavior of the participants at the South Pacific Masters Games 2000 in Hamilton, New Zealand.…”

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The Economic Impact of Participant Sports Events: A Case Study for the Winter World Masters Games 2020 in Tyrol, Austria

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The Winter World Masters Games (WWMGs) are a large sports event for 30+-year-old athletes. As there are neither competitive qualification requirements for participants, nor entrance fees for spectators, the event can be considered as a participatory sports tourism event rather than a spectator event. In 2020, the WWMGs were staged in Innsbruck, Tyrol. In this study, we estimate the payoff of the event for the regional economy by assessing the impacts generated by participant spending and organizational expenditure. Furthermore, we discuss the peculiarities of the masters sports concept. Our empirical work is based on three distinct analyses: (1) economic impact analysis of participant spending, (2) cost-benefit analysis of organizational resource flows, and (3) discussion of impacts with experts in a focus group setting. Our results support the previous findings that masters sports events attract rather affluent and consumption-oriented participants. Indeed, the WWMGs were found to have a regional economic impact of €6.18 million and an estimated yield of €4.40 for each publicly subsidized euro. For an audience interested in the economic impact of events, this paper presents a novel method for handling non-normal expenditure distributions and adds to the understanding of how visitor segmentation can be utilized in an assessment of event impacts.

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Determinants of the spending of sporting tourists: The case of attendees at professional basketball

Cited by 16 publications

References 41 publications

Determinants of visitors’ expenditure across a portfolio of events

Determinants of visitors’ expenditure across a portfolio of events

Identifying the Internal Factors and Challenges in Branding of Iran Basketball League

The Economic Impact of Participant Sports Events: A Case Study for the Winter World Masters Games 2020 in Tyrol, Austria

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