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Zipf`s law strikes again : the case of tourism
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posted on 2004-08-01, 00:00 authored by Mehmet UlubasogluMehmet Ulubasoglu, B HazariThis paper 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.
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Journal of economic geographyVolume
4Issue
4Pagination
459 - 472Publisher
Oxford University PressLocation
Oxford, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1468-2702Language
engPublication classification
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