<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>Wallimann, Hannes</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2019-09-01</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">The synthetic control method serves as an appropriate and promising approach to do  quantitative comparison research. However, the method is rarely used in the context  of tourism. We fill this research gap by applying the method to the case of a Swiss  mountain destination. Alpine tourist destinations have suffered from a declining  demand in the last decade. Fewer tourist visit ski resorts. Consequently, the tourism  industry in these destinations is under pressure to seek for solutions to face this falling  demand. Saas-Fee, a Swiss mountain destination particularly hard hit by the decline  of visitors has come up with an innovative offer: A substantial price discount on ski  passes. In this present study, we aim to estimate the causal effect of the price  discount in Saas-Fee. We adopt the synthetic control method to analyze the impact of  the destinations’ policy on tourism demand. Further, we perform placebo tests on all  units in our donor pool to evaluate the significance our results. Finally, we show how  to assess the assumptions of the synthetic control method in the context of tourism.</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/308258</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/308258/files/WP_SES_507.pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>http://www.unifr.ch/ses/wp</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>License undefined</dc:rights>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">Tourism policy evaluation</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">Synthetic control method</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">Swiss Alps</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">Price discount.</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">A substantial discount on ski passes : a synthetic control analysis</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18ws</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>