TY - JOUR
T1 - Short-term responses of Dutch vacationers to a sharp increase in transport costs
AU - van Cranenburgh, Sander
N1 - accepted author manuscript
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper investigates vacationers’ short-term responses to a sharp increase in transport costs. It aims to (1) acquire an understanding of the relative popularity of the different types of responses among vacationers and (2) explore whether there are distinct market segments of vacationers that respond differently to a sharp increase in transport costs. Data are obtained from a novel, tailor-made questionnaire which was done in the Netherlands in 2012. Results show that no single response is either very popular or unpopular. Furthermore, using latent class cluster analysis, four market segments (classes) of vacationers are identified that have markedly distinct response patterns. It was found that Age and Income explain class membership.
AB - This paper investigates vacationers’ short-term responses to a sharp increase in transport costs. It aims to (1) acquire an understanding of the relative popularity of the different types of responses among vacationers and (2) explore whether there are distinct market segments of vacationers that respond differently to a sharp increase in transport costs. Data are obtained from a novel, tailor-made questionnaire which was done in the Netherlands in 2012. Results show that no single response is either very popular or unpopular. Furthermore, using latent class cluster analysis, four market segments (classes) of vacationers are identified that have markedly distinct response patterns. It was found that Age and Income explain class membership.
KW - high transport costs
KW - latent class cluster analysis
KW - peak oil
KW - vacation behaviour
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U2 - 10.1080/13683500.2016.1202216
DO - 10.1080/13683500.2016.1202216
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84978159601
SN - 1368-3500
SP - 1
EP - 20
JO - Current Issues in Tourism
JF - Current Issues in Tourism
ER -