@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp15245,
            	author={Azam, Mehtabul},
            	title={Microeconomic Determinants of Domestic Tourism Expenditure in India},
            	year={2022},
	month={Apr},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={15245},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15245},
	abstract={Using a nationally representative household survey from India, we examine individuals' domestic tourism participation and trip expenditure decisions together. We control for a large set of explanatory variables broadly classified as economic, socio-demographic and trip related characteristics. We use two-part (hurdle) model to allow explanatory variables to have differential affects on each decision. We find that education is an important determinant for both the decisions. Moreover, trip-related characteristics (party size, stay length, ac- commodation type, travel mode, and destination) are also important determinants of trip expenditure in addition to economic and socio-demographic characteristics. The unconditional quantile regression results show the heterogeneity in the impact of many variables across the trip expenditure distribution. The differences in trip expenditure across age-groups are primarily in the upper half of the trip expenditure distribution. A trip arranged under a tour package leads to an increase in trip expenditure at the higher quantiles of trip expenditure distribution.},
	keywords={unconditional quantile regression;two-part model;expenditure;tourism participation},
            }