Tourism expenditure patterns in China

Vera Shanshan Lin; Rui Mao; Haiyan Song

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2015.07.001

Tourism expenditure patterns in China

Vera Shanshan Lin, Rui Mao, Haiyan Song

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Abstract

Using China's urban household survey data for 2002-2009, this study compares the impacts of the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of urban household expenditure on tourism in different age cohorts. The life cycle age profiles of group-tour and non-group tour expenditures are obtained by decomposing total household expenditure. The results show that the age profile of total tourism expenditure is hump-shaped, which conforms to consumers' income discretionary expenditure cycles. The age profile of group-tour expenditure is hump-shaped whereas that of non-group tour expenditure is S-shaped, corresponding to the substitution of group and non-group tours as children grow older. The implications are discussed in the context of tourism marketing with a view to providing useful segmentation information for tourism decision makers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	100-117
Number of pages	18
Journal	Annals of Tourism Research
Volume	54
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2015.07.001
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2015

Keywords

China
Hodrick-Prescott filter
Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
Urban household survey

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Development
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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