Expenditure Patterns by Travel Party Size: British and German Tourists on Crete, Greece

Σωτηριάδης, Μάριος; Arvanitis, Stavros

doi:10.1080/13032917.2006.9687185

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“…A deeper understanding of expenditure patterns is vital for tourism policy planners and destination marketers based on two key variables: nationality and travel party size for segmentation (Soteriades & Arvanitis, 2006). For decades, research on tourist expenditure (TE) has been associated with tourist destinations (Agarwal & Yochum, 1999;Mok & Iverson, 2000;Vukonic, 1986).…”

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“…In general, "tourism markets can be defined by a number of dualities such as first versus repeat visitors, business versus leisure tourists, domestic versus international tourists," or low versus high travel costs (e.g., low and high TE) (McKercher, Shoval, & Birenboim, 2012, p. 147). Moreover, although most previous studies attempting to document consumption styles of TE (Agarwal & Yochum, 1999;Alegre & Cladera, 2010;Mok & Iverson, 2000;Soteriades & Arvanitis, 2006;Vukonic, 1986) have been conducted on market segments, the three relationships above mentioned remain in question. Thus, the purpose of this research is to examine relationships among destination image, tourist motivation, perceived quality, satisfaction, perceived value, complaint, and revisit, depending on the low and high TE groups for tourism destinations.…”

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“…Previous studies have explored tourist purchase behavior as an important market segmentation criterion rather than relying on traditionally popular criteria such as tourists' demographic, psychographic, and socio-economic characteristics (Agarwal & Yochum, 1999;Soteriades & Arvanitis, 2006;Vukonic, 1986). Identifying tourists' spending patterns helps predict the consumption behavior of tourists of different nationalities and travel party size (Soteriades & Arvanities, 2006).…”

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Factors affecting British revisit intention to Crete, Greece: high vs. low spending tourists

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This study examines the relationships between determinants (i.e., destination image, tourist motivation, and perceived quality), satisfaction, perceived value, complaint, and revisiting a tourist destination. It also explores relationships between three determinants and tourist satisfaction with a moderating role of tourist expenditure (TE) for future re-visitation. The sampling targets were British tourists on holiday in Crete, Greece. We used a componentbased approach using the PLS method to analyze the data. The results of this study show that destination image, tourist motivation, and perceived quality have a significant effect on satisfaction, which subsequently affects tourists' perceived value on a destination, which, in turn, influences the level of complaints and the decision to revisit a tourist destination in the context of British tourists to Crete. Therefore, the results urge tourist destination managers to anticipate tourist satisfaction, perceived value, and complaint when determining revisit for tourist destinations through destination image, tourist motivation, and perceived quality. Furthermore, this study examines the differences between low TE and high TE groups on relationships between three determinants and tourist satisfaction, revealing that the relationships between destination image and satisfaction, between tourist motivation and satisfaction, and between perceived quality and satisfaction are significantly different according to the low TE and high TE groups. Thus, tourist destination marketers should consider TE as a key factor in market segmentation.

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“…Moreover, there is evidence that the progress of destinations through their life-cycle, and especially the introduction of mass tourism, decreases their economic impacts (Varvaressos & Soteriades, 2011a). Because of the high degree of dependence of Greek SMTEs on tour operators, the actual amount of tourist spending remaining in the country is only the 40-50% of total tourist spending (Soteriades & Arvanitis, 2006).…”

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“…The Greek tourism is promoted by the global GNTO network performing all the marketing functions, both for individual and institutional customers. Distribution: The Greek tourism offering / products are distributed to the international market predominantly through European tour operators, which organise package holidays and include resorts in their brochures (Bastakis et al, 2004;Soteriades & Arvanitis, 2006). More than 4,300 incoming travel agencies often act as tour operators' representatives at destinations and handling agencies, while providing a variety of tourism services.…”

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A Strategic Analysis of the Greek Leisure Tourism: Competitive Position, Issues and Challenges

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All Mediterranean countries adopted and implemented more or less the same model of tourism development based on 4Ss (Sun, Sea, Sand and Sex). The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the experience of developing leisure tourism in Greece in order to draw some useful lessons for other countries and tourism destinations. To address the research aim this paper adopts the approach of strategic analysis. This approach illustrates the importance of tourism as an economic activity and analyses the current situation and structural problems of Greece as a destination. Although Greece has a wonderful range of natural, cultural and heritage resources, the lack of differentiation of the tourism offering as well as competitive disadvantages in the fields of governance, planning and marketing caused an over-dependence on tour operators for the promotion and distribution of its tourism offering. The same factors compromised the quality of tourism services having involved a vicious circle. This situation has a negative impact on the sustainability and competitiveness of the destination and tourism industry.Therefore, the paper assesses the Greek experience with the aim to identify the crucial issues and challenges. This evaluation permits to take some lessons from the Greek experience, beneficial to other destinations willing to develop tourism, and to formulate some recommendations.

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Expenditure Patterns by Travel Party Size: British and German Tourists on Crete, Greece

Cited by 20 publications

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Factors affecting British revisit intention to Crete, Greece: high vs. low spending tourists

Factors affecting British revisit intention to Crete, Greece: high vs. low spending tourists

A Strategic Analysis of the Greek Leisure Tourism: Competitive Position, Issues and Challenges

Exploring the Social Impacts of Events

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