Analyzing the tourist markets with a new tool: Tourist market typology

Yıldırım Yılmaz

doi:10.48119/toleho.1120164

EN

Analyzing the tourist markets with a new tool: Tourist market typology

Abstract

To develop appropriate strategies through classifying the tourist markets is an important issue to increase the tourism revenue. In this study, a tourist market typology was developed. Tourist markets were divided into eight groups in terms of their average daily expenditures, average length of stay, and their contribution to the tourism revenue of destination. Typology of tourist markets was applied using the Turkish tourism data of 2018. It gives concrete recommendations about which strategy to be pursued for each markets in order to maximize the tourism revenue while controlling the cost that associated with the tourism operations.

Keywords

Tourist market typology, Tourism revenue, Average length of stay, Daily expenditure

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Primary Language

English

Subjects

Tourism (Other)

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Yıldırım Yılmaz ^*
0000-0002-6537-7111
Türkiye

Early Pub Date

June 11, 2023

Publication Date

June 30, 2023

Submission Date

May 23, 2022

Acceptance Date

November 18, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2023 Volume: 5 Number: 1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48119/toleho.1120164

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https://izlik.org/JA38YA23BG

APA

Yılmaz, Y. (2023). Analyzing the tourist markets with a new tool: Tourist market typology. Journal of Tourism Leisure and Hospitality, 5(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.48119/toleho.1120164

AMA

1.Yılmaz Y. Analyzing the tourist markets with a new tool: Tourist market typology. TOLEHO. 2023;5(1):1-10. doi:10.48119/toleho.1120164

Chicago

Yılmaz, Yıldırım. 2023. “Analyzing the Tourist Markets With a New Tool: Tourist Market Typology”. Journal of Tourism Leisure and Hospitality 5 (1): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.48119/toleho.1120164.

EndNote

Yılmaz Y (June 1, 2023) Analyzing the tourist markets with a new tool: Tourist market typology. Journal of Tourism Leisure and Hospitality 5 1 1–10.

IEEE

[1]Y. Yılmaz, “Analyzing the tourist markets with a new tool: Tourist market typology”, TOLEHO, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1–10, June 2023, doi: 10.48119/toleho.1120164.

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Yılmaz, Yıldırım. “Analyzing the Tourist Markets With a New Tool: Tourist Market Typology”. Journal of Tourism Leisure and Hospitality 5/1 (June 1, 2023): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.48119/toleho.1120164.

JAMA

1.Yılmaz Y. Analyzing the tourist markets with a new tool: Tourist market typology. TOLEHO. 2023;5:1–10.

MLA

Yılmaz, Yıldırım. “Analyzing the Tourist Markets With a New Tool: Tourist Market Typology”. Journal of Tourism Leisure and Hospitality, vol. 5, no. 1, June 2023, pp. 1-10, doi:10.48119/toleho.1120164.

Vancouver

1.Yıldırım Yılmaz. Analyzing the tourist markets with a new tool: Tourist market typology. TOLEHO. 2023 Jun. 1;5(1):1-10. doi:10.48119/toleho.1120164

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