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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 11-140/3

Klassifikation und Themen

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

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Neuts, Bart ; Nijkamp, Peter
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Tinbergen Institute
• (wo): Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/87446
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ