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Estimating travellers' preferences for competition in commercial passenger rail transport
Paha, Johannes; Rompf, Dirk; Warnecke, Christiane - 2011
preferences in intramodal competition has hardly been available, yet. Our study raises the knowledge of competition in commercial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286431
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A salience theory of choice errors
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2010
relevant to assess the link between 'revealed' preferences and 'true' preferences: for example, less rational agents may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269842
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Estimating Tourist Externalities on Residents: A Choice Modeling Approach to the Case of Rimini
Figini, Paolo; Castellani, Massimiliano; Vici, Laura - 2007
During their holidays, tourists produce direct and indirect effects on local residents, which can either be positive or negative. In this paper we investigate how residents of Rimini, a popular Italian seaside resort hosting more than ten million national and foreign overnight stays every year,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312320
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Cultural effects on inbound tourism into the USA: a gravity approach
Vietze, Christoph - 2008
world largest tourism destination. To estimate this empirically we run an augmented gravity equation. Our results give … positive effects on the tourism flows between these countries. In particular, after controlling for a set of geographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263883
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Consumer specialization and the Romantic transformation of the British Grand Tour of Europe
Chai, Andreas - 2010
This paper posits that significant changes in 19th century British recreational travel patterns resulted from a change in the manner in which tourists used entertaining stimuli in order to attain pleasure. Consumers no longer merely viewed arousing stimuli, but attempted to use them to produce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281847
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The missing link between medical science knowledge and public awareness: Implications for tourism and hospitality recovery after COVID-19
Wen, Jun; Hou, Haifeng; Kozak, Metin; Meng, Fang; Yu, … - In: European Journal of Management and Business Economics … 30 (2021) 2, pp. 230-242
Purpose - As the world grapples with the pervasive effects of the coronavirus pandemic, a notable disconnect has … public awareness related to COVID-19, taking tourism as a case in point. It also discusses the role of interdisciplinary … research in facilitating the tourism and hospitality industry's recovery and alleviating tourists' uncertainties in the wake of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193255
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Latent Variables in a Travel Mode Choice Model: Attitudinal and Behavioural Indicator Variables
Vredin Johansson, Maria; Heldt, Tobias; Johansson, Per - 2005
latent variables - environmental preferences, safety, comfort, convenience and flexibility - postulated to be important for …" latent variables. Important for the choice of travel mode are modal travel time and cost and the individual's preferences for … flexibility and comfort as well as her environmental preferences. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321530
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Is China climbing up the quality ladder? Estimating cross country differences in product quality using Eurostat's COMEXT trade database
Pula, Gabor; Santabárbara, Daniel - 2011
There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China’s export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605356
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Working for Families changes: The effect on labour supply in New Zealand
Mok, Penny; Mercante, Joseph - 2014
This paper examines the labour supply responses to the Working for Families (WfF) package of welfare reforms, which was fully implemented in 2008. The policy changes were implemented with the aim to encourage benefit recipients to participate in the labour market and to address income adequacy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115685