Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263461 
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Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15245
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using a nationally representative household survey from India, we examine individuals' domestic tourism participation and trip expenditure decisions together. We control for a large set of explanatory variables broadly classified as economic, socio-demographic and trip related characteristics. We use two-part (hurdle) model to allow explanatory variables to have differential affects on each decision. We find that education is an important determinant for both the decisions. Moreover, trip-related characteristics (party size, stay length, ac- commodation type, travel mode, and destination) are also important determinants of trip expenditure in addition to economic and socio-demographic characteristics. The unconditional quantile regression results show the heterogeneity in the impact of many variables across the trip expenditure distribution. The differences in trip expenditure across age-groups are primarily in the upper half of the trip expenditure distribution. A trip arranged under a tour package leads to an increase in trip expenditure at the higher quantiles of trip expenditure distribution.
Subjects: 
unconditional quantile regression
two-part model
expenditure
tourism participation
JEL: 
Z3
O12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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