Modelling bimodality of length of tourist stay

Gómez–Déniz, Emilio; Pérez‐Rodríguez, Jorge V.

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2019.01.006

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“…Wang, Little, & DelHomme-Little, 2012). While the links between geographic distance on length of stay has firmly been established in the literature (Gómez-Déniz & Pérez- Rodríguez, 2019), little is known about the impact of other forms of distance on tourism length of stay. As alluded to in the introduction, distance is no longer considered in only physical terms, but also in relative terms, and these relative measures have been shown to have independent impacts on tourism demand (Lorde, 2014).…”

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Distance matters: the impact of physical and relative distance on pleasure tourists' length of stay in Barbados

Jackman

Lorde

Naitram

et al. 2020

Annals of Tourism Research

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This paper argues that length of stay is a reflection of the distance between the origin and destination country. Past interpretations of distance premised on spatial aspects. This study extends the dimensional space of distance to include socio-psychological dimensions, climate distance and economic distance. Our empirical analysis utilizes airport data covering over 350,000 pleasure tourists to Barbados from 144 countries. The results suggest that the length of stay of pleasure tourists to Barbados increases with geographic distance, cultural distance and climatic distance, but is inversely related to economic distance. We find no evidence that long-distance relationships (captured by transnational and diasporic relationships) affect tourist length of stay. Implications of these findings are provided.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distance matters: the impact of physical and relative distance on pleasure tourists' length of stay in Barbados

Jackman

Lorde

Naitram

et al. 2020

Annals of Tourism Research

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“…The sign of the coefficient for medium income means that tourists with this income level spend less than those with a low income (the reference category). Gómez-Déniz and Pérez-Rodríguez (2019a) obtained similarly negative results using the same variables, but in this case, the difference was statistically significant. Our review of the literature revealed varying signs for income as continuous variable.…”

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“…1 On the other hand, empirical findings have revealed an inverse association between daily expenditure and length of stay (e.g. García-Sánchez et al, 2013; Gómez-Déniz and Pérez-Rodríguez, 2019a; Hellström, 2006). In all cases, weak dependence is found.…”

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Modelling dependence between daily tourist expenditure and length of stay

Gómez–Déniz

Pérez‐Rodríguez

2020

Tourism Economics

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In this article, tourists’ choice of the number of stays (length of stay, a discrete variable) and daily expenditure (a continuous variable) is modelled relaxing the linearity assumption and employing a structural form. A bivariate copula distribution, specified in terms of the marginal distributions of daily tourist expenditure and length of stay, is used to model and test dependence. We propose the Farlie–Gumbel–Morgenstern family of distributions, which provides a powerful tool to build a bivariate distribution with a flexible covariance structure and weak dependence. In addition, covariates can be introduced to study the factors that affect both variables simultaneously. Using Canary Islands Tourist Expenditure Survey data, the estimation results obtained indicate a negative correlation and weak dependence structure between the number of nights’ stay and the daily expenditure. The signs of the coefficients of the socio-economic variables and of the vacation characteristics are generally in line with the findings of empirical literature.

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“…However, authors like Gómez-Déniz and Pérez-Rodríguez (2019) and Gómez-Déniz et al (2020b) have jointly modeled both characteristics to provide a more comprehensive point of view. More specifically, these authors considered bimodality in the length of stay, which allows to capture the patterns that the empirical data seems to follow.…”

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“…The other specific feature of length of stay is excess dispersion, which indicates that the mean is lower than the variance. Both are important characteristics in the fit of the distribution of tourist length of stay and in the study of its determinants ( Gómez-Déniz and Pérez-Rodríguez, 2019 ; Gómez-Déniz et al, 2020b ).…”

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Bimodal length of stay in the accommodation sharing economy

2022

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This paper analyses the determinants of tourist length of stay in sharing accommodation. Methodologically, the paper proposes a new approach to account for the observed bimodality of length of stay. More specifically, the determinants of length of stay are analyzed by modeling both the conditional mean and conditional modal frequencies, which represent shorter and longer tourist stays, unlike previous contributions on length of stay where modeling has been based exclusively on the conditional mean. The empirical analysis examines the length of stay in sharing accommodation lodgings (Airbnb and Homeaway) of tourists visiting the Canary Islands (Spain) before and after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show a bimodal distribution of length of stay: 1 and 7 nights in the pre-pandemic period, reduced to 1 and 2 nights in the pandemic period. The results also indicate that the model approach followed in this paper is preferable to other previous bimodality models in terms of estimation simplicity and fit. In addition, the model allows an analysis of the determinants of length of stay and differentiation of the influence of each determinant on shorter and longer stays.

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Modelling bimodality of length of tourist stay

Cited by 12 publications

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Distance matters: the impact of physical and relative distance on pleasure tourists' length of stay in Barbados

Distance matters: the impact of physical and relative distance on pleasure tourists' length of stay in Barbados

Modelling dependence between daily tourist expenditure and length of stay

Bimodal length of stay in the accommodation sharing economy

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