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What prompts tourists to become public transportation users at their destination? The case of a Mediterranean city

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    Identifier: imarina:9162282
    Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9162282
  • Authors:

    Miravet D
    Domènech A
    Gutiérrez A
  • Others:

    Author, as appears in the article.: Miravet D; Domènech A; Gutiérrez A
    Department: Economia
    URV's Author/s: Domènech Montaña, Antoni / Gutiérrez Palomero, Aaron / Miravet Arnau, Daniel
    Keywords: Transport mode choice Tourist mobility Tourism destination Sustainable mobility Simulated likelihood estimation Public transport travel transport mode choice tourist mobility tourism destination sustainable mobility model impacts footprint climate-change areas air-pollution
    Abstract: © 2021 Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies The multiple dimensions of mobility decisions made by visitors add additional pressure to the sustainable equilibrium of destinations that combine residents’ daily activities with the arrival of tourists. Thus, the use of public transportation by tourists becomes central to improving ecoefficiency and mitigating negative externalities resulting from the massive mobility of tourists at their destinations. This research addresses the determinants of intra-destination public transportation use and departs from the hypothesis that the main impact derives from the transportation choice made during the longest trip from the traveller's origin to his or her destination. The study uses data obtained from a survey of tourists (N = 939) staying overnight in Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain), a medium-sized historic Mediterranean city. Logit estimations, Chi-square Automatic Interaction Detector (CHAID) analysis and interactions in the logit estimations are used to fulfil the research objective. The results suggest that tailor-made strategies are required to foster the use of sustainable transportation modes at tourist destinations. The study therefore highlights the importance of disentangling tourist profiles in order to properly customize mobility policies.
    Thematic Areas: Transportation Sociology Geography, planning and development Environmental studies Ciencias sociales
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Author's mail: antoni.domenech@urv.cat daniel.miravet@urv.cat aaron.gutierrez@urv.cat antoni.domenech@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0001-7830-5515 0000-0003-0557-6319
    Record's date: 2023-08-05
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
    Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214367X21000077
    Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Papper original source: Travel Behaviour And Society. 24 10-21
    APA: Miravet D; Domènech A; Gutiérrez A (2021). What prompts tourists to become public transportation users at their destination? The case of a Mediterranean city. Travel Behaviour And Society, 24(), 10-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2021.01.007
    Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2021.01.007
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2021
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Geography, Planning and Development,Transportation
    Transport mode choice
    Tourist mobility
    Tourism destination
    Sustainable mobility
    Simulated likelihood estimation
    Public transport
    travel
    transport mode choice
    tourist mobility
    tourism destination
    sustainable mobility
    model
    impacts
    footprint
    climate-change
    areas
    air-pollution
    Transportation
    Sociology
    Geography, planning and development
    Environmental studies
    Ciencias sociales
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