Zipf's law strikes again
The case of tourism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12694791 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mehmet Ulubaşoğlu (0000-0003-3055-5755, corresponding author), M A Ulubasoglu, Bharat R Hazari |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 459-472 |
| Publication date | 2004-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2702 • E-ISSN: 1468-2710 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jnlecg/lbh030 |
| OpenAlex | W2041325456 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This chapter examines the applicability of Zipf's law to tourism. It is established that a variation of this law holds in this case - a rank-size rule with concavity. Due to this non-linearity, it is shown that a spline regression provides an extremely convenient tool for predicting tourist arrivals in a country. The concavity is explained by appealing to random growth theory (lognormal distribution; Gibrat's law) and locational fundamentals.© 2011 Nova Science Publishers, Inc
Economic history · Geography · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Statistics · Tourism · Zipf's law · Auction Theory and Applications · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues · Mathematics · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2019 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |