Effect of income and price on international tourism

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of income and price on the demand for international tourism. Numerous empirical studies carried out over three decades have investigated their effect, but their results are quite varied. Therefore, the approach taken has been to integrate these findings and to examine whether inter-study differences account for any of the variability. The results indicate that estimated income elasticities of demand do vary as a function of certain substantive and methodological features. The results on price elasticities, however, yielded little information. Price is a complex factor in international tourism. The diverse attempts to define price appear to account for some of the variation in findings.

Résumé

L'effect des revenus et des prix sur le tourisme international. Le propos de cette étude était d'investiguer l'effet des revenus et des prix sur la demande pour le tourisme international. On a investigué leur effet dans de nombreuses études dans les trente dernières annèes, mais les résultats de ces études sont très variés. On a donc essayé d'intégrer ces résultats en cherchant des différences entre les études en question qui pourraient expliquer les variations. On a trouvé que les élasticités estimées des revenus par rapport à la demande varient, en fait, en fonction de certaines caractéristiques substantives et méthodologiques. L'étude des élasticités de prix, par contre, a produit peu de résultats. Les prix sont un facteur complexe dans le tourisme international. Les diverses tentatives pour définir le prix semblent expliquer quelques différences dans les résultats.

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    Geoffrey Crouch is a member of the Faculty of Management at the University of Calgary (Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada). Prior to this, he was Senior Lecturer in marketing and strategic management at the Graduate School of Management, Monash University, Australia.

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