Spending and length of stay by tourists flying to the Canary Islands (Spain) using low-cost carriers

Abstract

The AIM of this study is to examine and evaluate differences in expenditure and length of stay between tourists who use low-cost carriers and those who travel with full service providers. We consider the statistical dependence between these variables and propose a bivariate distribution that describes tourist expenditure (continuous variable) and length of stay (discrete variable) in terms of their conditional distributions. Covariates are included to reflect the factors that simultaneously affect both variables. In addition, an empirical analysis is made of data obtained by the Canary Islands Tourist Expenditure Survey. The results obtained show that our model achieves a reasonably good fit and that there are differences between LCC and FSC users regarding both expenditure and length of stay, in the use of nonhotel accommodation, as well as differences in expenditure in the case of repeated visits, and in the length of stay according to the visitors' age, nationality and travel party size.

Psychological Factors of Tourist Expenditure: Neglected or Negligible?

“…While the present analysis did not look specifically at where the higher expenditure was allocated, the effect of the number of traveling children was significant. The length of stay also had a comparable relationship to expenditure like the purchase of a holiday as a package (compare Almeida and Garrod, 2021;Mortazavi, 2021;Gómez-Déniz and Pérez-Rodríguez, 2021). Therefore, three travel-related factors, the purchase of a holiday as a package, the travel party size and the duration of the stay, can be considered significant expenditure factors.…”

“…Length of stay is one of the trip specific determinants which has been reported to impact positively on total expenditure ( Brida and Scuderi, 2013 ; Almeida and Garrod, 2021 ; Gómez-Déniz and Pérez-Rodríguez, 2021 ; Mortazavi, 2021 ). Aguiló et al (2017) have explained that length of stay is the channel through which the effects of all other determinants are translated into total tourist expenditure.…”