Lately the interest in arranging festivals or special events has increased in many cities. In this paper we present an econometric model to account for the tourism accommodation impact of such events. The autoregressive count data model incorporates some of the more important factors in the...

La justificación del estudio reside en la importancia del deporte en nuestra sociedad y en el papel que juegan las entidades deportivas como catalizadores entre el deporte y las relaciones sociales. El objetivo del trabajo es analizar los factores socio-demográficos y socio-económicos que...

This article builds on the double role of the effect of prices on the choice of tourism activities: not only is it the only component of a destination marketing strategy that represents income but also a determinant factor in tourist choice. On this account, identifying patterns of tourists with...

Literature shows evidence that there is a marked heterogeneity in price responses to tourism products, leading to a great variety of tourist sensitivities to price. It means that the role price plays is complex and, particularly challenging is that its effect is not unambiguous, thereby...

This paper investigates tourists' profile in relation to both intra-destination movement patterns and transportation mode choices at the destination through the use of bivariate probit models. The analysis is based on a field survey conducted among tourists visiting the Canton of Ticino,...

Zusammenfassung In der Tourismusliteratur finden sich bereits verschiedene Beiträge, welche die Notwendigkeit für einen Wandel sowie das Ziel eines Veränderungsprozesses von Destinationen diskutieren. Bisher fehlt es jedoch an Erkenntnissen, wie ein transformativer Wandel der...