Overnight tourism in Amsterdam 1982–1993 — a forecasting approach

✍ Scribed by Bob van Limburg

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 313 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0261-5177
• DOI: 10.1016/s0261-5177(97)00048-4

✦ Synopsis

This research note presents an analysis of tourist flows to Amsterdam and it introduces a operational technique for the planning of the city's marketing. An empirical model is introduced to aid planning at a local level and estimated and tested. Using the model the paper then presents an analysis of overnight tourism to the city for the period 1982-1993. Additoually an input/output analysis is undertaken and a number of trends are demonstrated and commented upon. © 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd The importance of tourism In 1995, tourist expenditure in Amsterdam totalled ca 2 billion Dutch guilders. The statistics in

Table 1 are derived from an input/output table from the Netherlands. ~