Influencing factors of empty nest family tourism consumption

ABSTRACT

Based on the data of China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) in 2018, this paper analyzes the influencing factors of empty nest family tourism consumption. It is found that family assets, pension income and Internet usage have a significant impact on empty nest family tourism consumption, positively promoting it. Internet usage has the greatest impact. This paper also carries out a heterogeneity test. The results show that the factors affecting the tourism consumption of empty nest families are different among middle-aged and elderly empty nest families, urban and rural empty nest families, and empty nest families in different regions.

KEYWORDS:

• Tourism consumption
• family tourism
• tourism marketing
• empty nest family
• Internet usage
• family assets
• pension
• Tobit model
• China

Acknowledgments

This research was funded by the Social Science Project of Jilin Provincial Department of Education, China(JJKH20210593SK)

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 Tourism consumption as a measurement variable, 0 is the actual data value, not the missing value. Therefore, these samples also need to be considered in the model, that is, ln (0) needs to be defined. In this paper, ln (x + 1) is used to convert the natural logarithm, that is, the dependent variable is converted to ln (tourism consumption+1), and Tobit model is used for analysis (Lu & Chen, 2004).

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Funding

This research was funded by the Social Science Project of Jilin Provincial Department of Education, China (Grant number: JJKH20210593SK).