Tag: Z30

DETECTING INTERREGIONAL PATTERNS IN TOURISM SEASONALITY OF GREECE: A PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS APPROACH

Dimitrios TSIOTAS

Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Regional and Economic Development, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece, Nea Poli, Amfissa, 33100, Greece, Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos, Volos, 38334, Greece, tsiotas@aua.gr

tsiotas@uth.gr

Thomas KRABOKOUKIS

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos, Volos, 38334, Greece

tkrabokoukis@uth.gr

Serafeim POLYZOS

Professor, Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos, Volos, 38334, Greece

spolyzos@uth.gr

Abstract

Tourism seasonality is a complex phenomenon incorporating a temporal, a spatial, and a socioeconomic (ontological) dimension. This paper builds on principal component analysis (PCA) to provide an integrated methodological framework for studying all three dimensions of tourism seasonality. The proposed method classifies the seasonal patterns of tourism demand of the Greek prefectures into regional groups, which are examined in terms of their geographical and socioeconomic characteristics. The study aims to configure distinguishable seasonal profiles in terms of their socioeconomic attributes. The proposed method is applied to monthly data of tourism overnight stays for the period 1998-2018 and detects seven principal components described by diverse socioeconomic attributes. The overall analysis proposes a useful tool for tourism management and regional policy, it advances PCA to be used as a tool of regional classification, and it incorporates a multivariate consideration based on the socioeconomic evaluation of the principal components. The proposed methodology develops an integrated framework dealing with complexity describing socioeconomic research and particularly tourism seasonality.

Keywords: regional development; seasonal classification; spatiotemporal patterns; pattern recognition.

JEL classification: C18, C38, O52, R10, R58, Z30

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ANALYSIS ON TRAVEL EXPENDITURE BY OCCUPATION FOR JAPAN DOMESTIC TRAVEL

Kenichi SHIMAMOTO

Associate Professor, Hirao School of Management, Konan University, Japan

ken_japan51@hotmail.com

Abstract

There is growing interest in the travel market with its significant impact on the economy and society. This paper attempts to provide some insight to the Japan domestic travel market by analysing the travel related purchasing behaviour by occupation. It examines travel related expenditure covering five consumption items for domestic travel with and without overnight stays by Japan residents. The occupations examined are management; professionals and engineers; administration; retail, service and security; agriculture, lumbering, fishing; manufacturing, transport, construction, field work; housewives; students; retired and unemployed. The results find that the greatest difference by occupation is the partiality agriculture, lumbering and fishing and housewives have towards package tours, holidays and vacation for travel with and without overnight stays. Concerning travel with overnight stays, management, professionals and engineers exhibited similar purchasing behaviours and for travel without overnight stays, professionals, engineers, administration retail, service and security displayed similar preferences. Students showed an exceptionally strong partiality towards entrance and attraction expenditure when travelling without overnight stays. Another significant result is the weak preference by management for travel gifts and shopping. The purchasing behaviour of manufacturing, transport, construction and field work were the closest to the average traveller.

Keywords: occupation, travel expenditure, consumption item, Japan domestic overnight travel

JEL classification: J10, Z30, Z33
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CHANGES IN THE NUMBER OF VISITORS’ OVERNIGHT STAYS IN HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS AND CAMPSITES IN THE THIRTEEN ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS OF GREECE : A SHIFT SHARE ANALYSIS APPROACH

Georgios XANTHOS

Department of Bussines Administarion ,ΤΕΙ of Crete , Greece

e-mail xanthosg@staff.teicrete.gr

Nikolaos RODOUSAKIS

Department of Public Administration, Panteion University, Athens, Greece

e-mail  nrodousakis@gmail.com

Abstract

The shift-share method is applied in order to divide a regional value’s change into separate components. The present paper aims to divide the percentage change of the number of overnight stays that took place in hotel and campsite accommodations in the thirteen Greek administrative regions between the years 2003 and 2015 into separate components, by applying the above mentioned method. Arrivals and overnight stays’ data for domestic and international visitors were used for the division of the percentage change of the total number of overnight stays.

Keywords: Shift-share analysis, Arrivals, overnight stays, hotel accommodations

JEL classification: Z30, R58
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