Zipf's law strikes again: The case of tourism
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posted on 2023-10-26, 04:39 authored by Mehmet UlubasogluMehmet Ulubasoglu, B R HazariThis 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.
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