An Examination of Irish Outbound Tourism Expenditure

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An Examination of Irish Outbound Tourism
Expenditure

• Steve MacFeely Sheona Gilsenan
• CSO - Ireland

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Why examine Outbound Expenditure?
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Overview Irish Outbound Tourism
Relative Market Share by Destination, 2000 - 2007
Source Household Travel Survey CSO
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How Do we Spend it?
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Main Expenditure Categories by Destination
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How we measure Outbound Expenditure?
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How we measure Outbound Expenditure?
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How we measure Outbound Expenditure?
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Measuring Expenditure Frontier VS Household
Survey
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Coverage Bias in Household Survey
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Coverage Bias in Sample in Household Survey
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Comparison of outbound trips taken to Poland in
2006 2007
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The Future Plans

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Conclusions

• Changes to resident population reflected quickly
  in the frontier survey but failed to be picked up
  in the Household survey
• Development of Frontier survey to link with our
  Household survey will allow breakdown of
  expenditure by route pairings, transfers taken.
• Thank You!