Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine two facets of vacation travel. Vacation trip distance and vacation trip costs were analyzed using the Automatic Interaction Detector (AID) Program. Seventeen selected socioeconomic characteristics served as independent variables in the analysis. Vacation time variables, vacation trip variables and household ownership variables of recreation vehicles, vacation homes and water sports equipment were consolidated into a group of independent variables for a second analysis on the two dependent variables. The AID analysis of distance and socioeconomic characteristics resulted in the selection of husband's and wife's education, husband's age, race, income, city of residence and the locale where the wife was reared as being important predictors of vacation trip distance. The analysis of vacation related variables and distance resulted in the selection of travel cost, total vacation cost and the number of days on the trip by the AID program. These variables explained 45.5 percent of the variation in distance traveled during the 2093 vacation trips analyzed in the study. The socioeconomic characteristics reduced the total variance in the dependent variable 10.3 percent.
Christianson, David Jan (1976). An interaction analysis of vacation travel. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /DISSERTATIONS -182496.