Sequential choice behavior: Going on vacation and type of destination

dc.contributor.authorNicolau, Juan Luisen
dc.contributor.authorMas, Francisco J.en
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-30T19:50:48Zen
dc.date.available2024-07-30T19:50:48Zen
dc.date.issued2008-10-01en
dc.description.abstractThe literature of destination choice has so far studied multi-stage decision making processes that are more representative of the general choice behavior of tourists (e.g. going on vacation, going abroad, and destination country). Alternatively, this study proposes a multi-stage decision process to the choice of tourist destination types (going on vacation, coastal character, and urban character of the destination) as these choice sets are more idiosyncratic to tourists who prefer a specific type of tourist destination (e.g. Spain with clear coastal and inland variations). In order to test this multi-stage choice process as well as the sequential order of both decisions, coastal character and urban character, the current study analyses decision processes vs. different hierarchical multi-stage processes (going on vacation and coastal character preceding urban character; and going on vacation and urban character preceding coastal character). The empirical findings support the existence of a multi-stage choice process where coastal character precedes the urban character destination choice. The main implication of these findings is that, given the limited human analytical capability, a hierarchical choice process can be useful to handle the information overload and the complexity inherent to the destination type choice. en
dc.description.versionAccepted versionen
dc.format.extentPages 1023-1034en
dc.format.extent12 page(s)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2008.01.004en
dc.identifier.eissn1879-3193en
dc.identifier.issn0261-5177en
dc.identifier.issue5en
dc.identifier.orcidNicolau Gonzalbez, Juan [0000-0003-0048-2823]en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10919/120783en
dc.identifier.volume29en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
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dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjecttourist behavioren
dc.subjectmulti-stage decision processen
dc.subjectdestination type choiceen
dc.subjectRandom Parameter Logit Modelen
dc.titleSequential choice behavior: Going on vacation and type of destinationen
dc.title.serialTourism Managementen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.otherArticleen
dc.type.otherJournalen
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pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Pamplin College of Businessen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Pamplin College of Business/Hospitality and Tourism Managementen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/All T&R Facultyen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Pamplin College of Business/PCOB T&R Facultyen

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