Strategic choice in tourism with differentiated crowding types

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2010

Authors

Brida, JG (Author) Other; Such devesa, MJ (Author) Other; Faias, M (Author) Other; Pinto, A (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: Economics Bulletin

Vol. 30

Pages: 1509-1515

ISSN: 1545-2921

Publisher: Economics Bulletin

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-007-TFZ

Abstract (EN): We introduce a model of tourism choice where we consider that the choice of a tourism resort by a tourist, depends not only on the characteristics of the product offered by the resort but depends also on certain characteristics -crowding types- of the other tourists that have chosen the same resort. To get insights about the effect of crowding types in the allocation of tourists across resorts we exploit a club formation approach and model the framework by means of a Nash game. We establish existence of strategic equilibrium and characterize relevant equilibria.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific