Antecedents of tourist trip planning autonomy: The moderating effects of a global economic crisis

• Milagros Fernández-Herrero ^[1] ; Rosa María Hernández Maestro ^[1] ; Óscar González-Benito ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Salamanca

     Universidad de Salamanca

     Salamanca, España

     
• Localización: Tourism economics: the business and finance of tourism and recreation, ISSN 1354-8166, Vol. 28, Nº. Extra 5, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Panel Data Models in Tourism Research), págs. 1153-1173
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • With national data from tourists who reside in Spain, this article researches antecedents of tourist autonomy in trip planning, including both tourists’ characteristics and details of their trips. The results indicate positive relationships of tourists’ educational background and their travel experience with autonomy but negative relationships of trip length with autonomy. These data from Spain also highlight the role of the last global economic crisis, revealing its moderating influence on the relationships among several of the antecedent factors and autonomy. These results in turn have relevant managerial implications for tourism operators.