Tourist expenditure is an important measure of international tourism demand. This study is a
review of expenditure analyses in a tourism context presenting a range of factors that could …

Marcussen (2011a) distinguished between the vital and the not-so-vital determinants of
micro-level tourism expenditure. Arguably, the lessons learned from Marcussen's study …

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the econometric approaches for the analysis
of tourism expenditure at the individual level. Considering only regression models is a novel …

The independent variables length of stay and travel party size are recurrent determinants of
expenditures in micro level tourism studies. In most of this research it has been tacitly …

Although the issue of tourist spending estimation has long been of considerable interest to
many researchers, there has been no consensus yet about its definition as the dependent …

Tourism expenditures represent a major component of the world's economy. Both the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Tourism Organization (WTO) have …

Current models of tourism demand based in economic utility theory assume a two-stage
decision process, with the choice of tour independent of the prior decision to travel or not. In …

The purpose of this article is to review a large number of published empirical studies on
modeling international tourism demand and to integrate their findings according to the …

Traditionally, many studies have attempted to use economic demand models. This paper
stresses on the influence of non‐economic factors on tourism demand. Some researchers …

Detailed descriptive classifications according to the decade of publication, type of data,
sample sizes, model specifications, the types of dependent and explanatory variables used …