DETERMINING THE FACTORS TAKING ROLE IN SKI/SNOWBOARD PREFERENCES KAYAK/SNOWBOARD TERCİHİNDE ROL ALAN FAKTÖRLERİN BELİRLENMESİ

Year 2019, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 42 - 55, 01.07.2019

Adem Aksoy , Abdülbaki Bilgiç

Abstract

In this study, socio-economic factors underlying tourists’ skiing or snowboarding
preferences were proposed to determine. purpose was determine. Study material is acquired
with a questionnaire study conducted on 295 participants who came to Palandoken and
Konaklı Ski Center with the purpose of vacation in February 2015. In the study the
contributory factors in the preference for ski-type was detected and then the unit-effects of the
factors that have impact on the preferences was measured with their standard error. To
achieve this goal, Conditional Logit Model was used. In the Logit Model the sociodemographic and economic conditions of the individuals are determinant factors for their
skiing or snowboarding preferences. According to the descriptive statistic results, while the
%32.9 of the guests that have participated in questionnaire reside in Erzurum, %38.2 of them
come from Istanbul, Ankara and İzmir. While the %36 of the guests that have participated in
questionnaire are female, it is confirmed that the average income of the vacationers is 6400
TL and that %20 of the guests paid 1000 TL and above for the accommodation. Almost all
guests coming from other cities have stated that the center is quite better compared to the
other centers.

Keywords

Winter tourism, Economic cost

References

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