Within the framework of a microeconomic model of leisure demand, the determinants of German tourists' decisions whether to spend vacation at all, which activities to pursue, and which travel destination to choose are investigated empirically. Three-stage nested multinomial logit models are...

The focus of this paper is on the microeconometric analysis of spatial choice in a cross section. Nested multinomial logit models are used to analyze the determi-nants of individual choice among destinations and vacation activities. Cramer and Ridder's likelihood ratio test for pooled...

The formation of spatial alternatives and the representation of agent-specific heterogeneity are prime issues in empirical studies of location choice. This study surveys microeconomic and microeconometric models of individual location choice that permit to analyze the determinants of individual...

The paper reports on an attempt to analyse individual travelling behaviour by discrete choice models. It shows that among the socio-economic variables 'income (of household)' is the variable which influences the decision whether a trip is taken at all whereas 'age' seems to be the most important...