Keywords
reasons for travel
social-demographic factors
travel condition
poisson probability function
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Abstract
In Costa Rica, the demand for tourist activities shows a tendency for nature-based tourism. The present research work analyzes the international demand for this type of tourism according to reasons for travel, sociodemographic and travel condition variables. The study includes hiking/trekking, visits to volcanoes, observation of flora and fauna, bird watching and canopy. Data are taken from the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT), from the Air Survey (Encuesta Aérea) to non-resident tourists over the age of 18 who left from the Juan Santamaría Airport during the first quarter of 2007. The study comprises two dimensions: 1) the probability of demand for each of these activities, based on the average number of activities. (2) Poisson distribution is used to calculate the average number of adventure tourism activities performed for tourists, given the favorable or unfavorable influence of reasons for travel, sociodemographic factors and travel condition. (3) Through the Poisson probability function models, ceteris paribus, the increase or decrease on the average amount of tourism adventure activities to carry out for tourists is calculated, according to the influence of the different variables of analyzes.
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