Measuring the effects of tourists’ relative willingness to spend and third-degree price discrimination on inbound tourism expenditure differentials
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Usamah F Alfarhan [1] ; Khaldoon Nusair [1] ; Hamed Al-Azri [1] ; Saeed Al-Muharrami [1] ; Nan Hua [2]
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[1] Sultan Qaboos University
Sultan Qaboos University
Omán
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[2] University of Central Florida
University of Central Florida
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Tourism economics: the business and finance of tourism and recreation, ISSN 1354-8166, Vol. 28, Nº. 8, 2022, págs. 2126-2153
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Tourism expenditures are determined by a set of antecedents that reflect tourists’ willingness and ability to spend, and de facto incremental monetary outlays at which willingness and ability is transformed into total expenditures. Based on the neoclassical theoretical argument of utility-constrained expenditure minimization, we extend the current literature by applying a sustainability-based segmentation criterion, namely, the Legatum Prosperity IndexTM to the decomposition of a total expenditure differential into tourists’ relative willingness to spend and an upper bound of third-degree price discrimination, using mean-level and conditional quantile estimates. Our results indicate that understanding the price–quantity composition of international inbound tourism expenditure differentials assists agents in the tourism industry in their quest for profit maximization.
