Travelers to Las Vegas and to Atlantic City
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This article measures the impacts of demographic, lifestyle, and distance variables on travel to Las Vegas and to Atlantic-Cape May, New Jersey, using data at two levels of aggregation and at the household level. The source of the travel data is the 1995 American Travel Survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The most consistent finding is the strong negative effect of distance for both destinations. The lifestyle variables examined here have little effect on travel to Las Vegas, but they indicate that travelers to Atlantic-Cape May come from areas with high proportions of casino gamblers and low proportions of people who travel regularly. The estimated effects of demographic variables vary with the destination and the level of aggregation. Results of this kind can be useful in destination marketing.
Publication Name: Journal of Travel Research
Subject: Travel industry
ISSN: 0047-2875
Year: 2001
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Research Note to "Incidence of the Impacts of Room Taxes on the Lodging Industry": Revision to Article Published in Spring 1993 Issue of JTR
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The corrected data in this note measure the price elasticity, of supply for lodging services to be about 0.11 based on time-series data. This level compared with the elasticity of demand was calculated at the time by the same authors at -0.44. The two elasticities taken together indicate that the incidence of room taxes falls most heavily on the lodging industry, which reverses the conclusion from the original article.
Publication Name: Journal of Travel Research
Subject: Travel industry
ISSN: 0047-2875
Year: 2001
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Market Segmentation of Wyoming Snowmobilers
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Given the increasing popularity of snowmobiling, information on snowmobilers' characteristics and preferences is needed to better manage and market snowmobiling programs. This study examines the characteristics, preferences, and motivations of Wyoming snowmobilers. Unique groups of snowmobilers are identified, and differences in their snowmobiling behavior and sociodemographic characteristics are investigated.
Publication Name: Journal of Travel Research
Subject: Travel industry
ISSN: 0047-2875
Year: 2001
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