Increase of tourists’ length of stay in Brazil: New tourists or new behaviors?

Authors

  • Glauber Eduardo de Oliveira Santos Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo (IFSP)
  • Vicente Ramos Universidade das Ilhas Baleares (Espanha).
  • Javier Rey-Maquieira Universidade das Ilhas Baleares (Espanha).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7784/rbtur.v6i2.530

Keywords:

Length of stay, Duration of the trip, Duration models, Tourism in Brazil.

Abstract

The average duration of tourism trips has decreased all over the world. However, curiously, this trend has not been observed in the Brazilian inbound tourism. There are two hypotheses for explaining this uncommon Brazilian reality: changes in the behavior of tourists visiting Brazil, and changes in the composition of the Brazilian inbound tourism flow. The endorsement of the first hypothesis would show that the evolution of tourist behavior over the last years was actually different in Brazil and in the rest of the world. This would evidence the occurrence of improvements in the quality of tourist experiences offered by Brazil. The present study aims to test this hypothesis by using duration models to analyze more than 211 thousand tourist surveys. Modeling individual tourist behavior allows to control for intervenient variables and to conduct a detailed analysis of the time effect on the expected tourists’ length of stay. Thirteen duration models are tested. The model with Weibull distributed hazard and Gamma distributed individual heterogeneity is selected. The estimates show that the increasing trend of tourists’ length of stay in Brazil is partially explained by changes in tourists’ behavior.

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Author Biographies

Glauber Eduardo de Oliveira Santos, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo (IFSP)

Bacharel em Turismo pela Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA) da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), mestre em Ciências da Comunicação na linha de pesquisa de Turismo e Lazer pela ECA-USP. Atualmente cursa doutorado em Economia do Turismo e do Meio Ambiente na Universidade das Ilhas Baleares, Espanha. É professor efetivo do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo (IFSP) e pesquisador da Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas da USP.

Vicente Ramos, Universidade das Ilhas Baleares (Espanha).

Professor do departamento de Economia Aplicada da Universidade das Ilhas Baleares (Espanha).

Javier Rey-Maquieira, Universidade das Ilhas Baleares (Espanha).

Professor do departamento de Economia Aplicada da Universidade das Ilhas Baleares (Espanha).

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Published

2012-09-11

How to Cite

Santos, G. E. de O., Ramos, V., & Rey-Maquieira, J. (2012). Increase of tourists’ length of stay in Brazil: New tourists or new behaviors?. Revista Brasileira De Pesquisa Em Turismo, 6(2), 233–246. https://doi.org/10.7784/rbtur.v6i2.530

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2012): May/August

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Articles

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