The characteristics of total consumption and each consumption item by tourists overall and by tourists' age for domestic day trips

Abstract

With the development of transport networks, the coverage of day trips have been expanding and there has been growing interest to understand the consumption behavior of day trip tourists. Hence, this paper investigates the day trip tourists' consumption by both ages and consumption items. The results are mainly as follows. First, tourists in their 40s to 60s have the highest total consumption and they consume more than others in the area of transport, food/beverage and souvenir/shopping. With regards to total consumption per capita, tourists in their 50s to 70s were higher than others, and this was also found in the items of food/beverage and souvenir/shopping. Tourists under the age of 10 consumed less than others with almost all consumption items. There were also differences concerning the share of the consumption items by age and 60s and above were found to prefer spending on participation costs and souvenir/shopping.