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Does Tourism Consumption Behaviour Mirror Differences in Living Standards?
Cristina BerniniCinzia ViroliMaria Francesca Cracolicisubject
Economic growthSociology and Political ScienceInequalitymedia_common.quotation_subjectDistribution (economics)Standard of living01 natural sciencesMixture regression modelTourism market010104 statistics & probabilityArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)0502 economics and businessHuman geographyDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyEconomics050207 economics0101 mathematicsLiving standardsConsumption heterogeneityTourism expenditure distributionMixture regression modelsTourism expenditure distributionmedia_commonConsumption (economics)Living standardPublic economicsbusiness.industry05 social sciencesGeneral Social SciencesRegression analysisSettore SECS-S/03 - Statistica EconomicaConsumption heterogeneitybusinessTourismdescription
Based on the theoretical foundation of well-being measurement, the study explores differences in living standards by analysing the distribution of tourism expenditure. A mixture of regression models is used to explore the heterogeneity in tourism consumption by identifying groups of families with similar tourism consumption behaviour as a function of certain socio-demographic and economic factors. The empirical analysis, performed on Italian expenditure data, suggests that there are three different patterns of consumption behaviour conditional to the socio-demographic and economic covariates in the tourism market and that differences in tourism consumption between groups of households mirror inequalities in living standards.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-29 |