Travel behavior on vacation: transport mode choice of tourists at destinations

Tourist travel contributes greatly to transport problems in highly attractive tourist areas. Despite that, local behavior of visitors at the destination has hardly been investigated so far. To fill this gap, we used data from a bespoke travel-activity survey conducted Austrian Alps develop models mode choice tourists during their vacation stays resorts. The outcomes reveal significant effects of, inter alia, time, cost, party composition, trip purpose, respondent’s level fitness, knowledge about long-distance and mobility options destination, selected weather elements. Tourists are found be very inelastic changes whilst more responsive time. paper delivers unique evidence that can advance policy design thus contribute sustainable destinations.