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The Determinants of Expenditures by Mexican Visitors to the Border Cities of Texas

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  • Nader Asgary

    (Assistant Professor of Economics and International Business, Jones School of Business, State University of New York, Geneseo, New York 14454, USA)

  • Gilberto de los Santos
  • Vern Vincent
  • Victor Davila

Abstract

This study is unique in that it is the first, at least in the literature, to study systematically and analyse empirically the expenditures by Mexican visitors in the border cities of the USA. The authors investigate the expenditure behaviour of Mexican visitors in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (RGV) region of Texas. The paper makes the following contributions to the cross-border tourism literature. It examines the qualitative, socio-economic, and demographic factors that determine the Mexican visitors' expenditures in the border cities, concluding that the expenditure by Mexican visitors is a function of their income level, socio-economic and demographic variables. Specifically as income increases by 1% expenditure increases by 0.22%.

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  • Nader Asgary & Gilberto de los Santos & Vern Vincent & Victor Davila, 1997. "The Determinants of Expenditures by Mexican Visitors to the Border Cities of Texas," Tourism Economics, , vol. 3(4), pages 319-328, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:toueco:v:3:y:1997:i:4:p:319-328
    DOI: 10.1177/135481669700300402
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    1. Carl H. Marcussen, 2011. "Determinants of Tourist Spending in Cross-Sectional Studies and at Danish Destinations," Tourism Economics, , vol. 17(4), pages 833-855, August.
    2. Shobhit Saxena & Abdul Rawoof Pinjari & Chandra R. Bhat & Aupal Mondal, 2024. "A flexible multiple discrete–continuous probit (MDCP) model: application to analysis of expenditure patterns of domestic tourists in India," Transportation, Springer, vol. 51(4), pages 1299-1326, August.
    3. Brida, Juan Gabriel & Scuderi, Raffaele, 2012. "Determinants of tourist expenditure: a review of microeconometric models," MPRA Paper 38468, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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