Crowding Perception in a Tourist City: A Question of Preference

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Two main topics are analysed in this paper: a crowding model for an urban destination is tested by the use of a binary logistic model in order to identify the variables influencing crowding perception; and the inherent negativity of the crowding concept, as is often assumed, is examined through association statistics. The results confirmed that personal and behavioural variables have a larger effect on the perception of crowding than use-level. Furthermore, the relationship between crowding and experience, while significantly negative, could only be found in respondents with a preference for low, and a perception of high, use-levels, while for the majority of individuals the perception of a certain crowding level did not lead to a negative evaluation of the conditions. This proves that the concept of crowding cannot be assumed to be implicitly negative, and needs individual preferences to be fully understood.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 11-140/3

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism ; Sustainable Development ; Externalities ; Econometrics ; Classification Discontinued 2008. See C83.
• Subject: carrying capacity ; crowding ; tourist experience ; use-level ; sustainability

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Neuts, Bart ; Nijkamp, Peter
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Tinbergen Institute
• (where): Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/87446
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET