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Tipping, Firm Strategy, and Industrial Organization

Azar, Ofer H. - 2007

Tipping is a phenomenon that has been studied for many years, but is receiving increased attention in recent years. The magnitude of tips is very large - in the US, for example, tips in the food industry alone amount to about $42 billion each year, and tips are given in many other establishments...

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Tourism in Galicia : Domestic and Foreign Demand

Garín Muñoz, Teresa - 2010

elaborate two models depending on the origin (domestic or foreign) of the tourists. For the domestic demand, we use a panel of … annual data on the 17 regions of origin of tourists during the period 1999-2006. For the international demand, we use another … annual panel of 24 countries of origin of tourists for the same period. The estimated elasticities suggest that both domestic …

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Destination Image, Perceived Risk and Intention to Visit

Chapuis, Jean Michel; Le Falher, Charlène; Gonzalez, … - 2015

Within the experience of deciding about a vacation, does overall image of a destination is reflected in a tourist's perceptions and feelings? Subsequently, this image as a reflective second-order construct, is expected to be related to perceptions of risk. The authors study how 310 respondents...

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Travel Party Composition on Attitudes and Behaviors Among Chinese Tourists in Taiwan

Cheng, Ru-Jen - 2017

This study investigated the influence of travel party composition on attitudes and behaviors among Chinese tourists in … Taiwan. Based on tourism consumption system, 5 questions were proposed regarding tourists’ preferred information sources …

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Using Reminders with Different Reward Opportunities to Reduce No-Show Behavior : Empirical Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Professional Sports

Schreyer, Dominik; Schmidt, Sascha L.; Torgler, Benno - 2020

Because no-show behavior typically leads to operational inefficiencies and thus diminishing returns for service firms, a growing number of authors have demonstrated the potential of using reminders to reduce no-show rates. In this study, by examining the behavioral responses of 13,911 season...

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Ride-Sharing and the Geography of Consumption in Cities

Norris, Jordan; Xiong, Heyu - 2019

Despite the near ubiquity of ride-sharing services in cities worldwide, little evidence exists as to how these services affect economic behavior. Given the first-order role travel considerations play in shaping consumer choices, this paper studies the effect ride-sharing technology has on the...

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Impact of Overwhelming Joy on Consumer Demand : The Case of a Soccer World-Cup Victory

Falter, Jean-Marc; Pérignon, Christophe; Vercruysse, … - 2013

In this paper, we identify the period following a Soccer World Cup victory as a period of overwhelming joy for the winning country and we test the impact of a World Cup victory on the demand for Soccer in this country. Our empirical study is based on all matches of the French Soccer First League...

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Heterogeneous Consumer Preferences for Product Quality and Uncertainty

Maennig, Wolfgang; Mueller, Steffen Q. - 2022

We provide evidence for heterogeneous consumer preferences for product quality and game outcome uncertainty (GOU) in Major League Baseball. Using attendance data from 2013 to 2019, we explore functional data clustering techniques to detect common patterns in predictive margins of team-specific...

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College football attendance in the long run : The Football Championship Subdivision

Xiao, Linlan; Falls, Gregory A.; Natke, Paul Anthony - 2022

A balanced panel (61 Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) football teams over38 years) is used to estimate four regression models using time series and panelmethods and identify variables that drive per-game season attendance. Variables areeither stationary or co-integrated. Most coefficients...

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Tourist Tax and Ratings of Online Reviews

Marsi, Antonio; Randon, Emanuela - 2021

Tourist taxes represent one of the principal sources of revenue for a number of local authorities. Using a dataset of more than 300 thousands reviews on TripAdvisor, we analyze the effect of tourist taxes on online ratings posted by hotel costumers. Online ratings are strategic variables for the...

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