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Car Decals As A New Data Source For Self-Drive Tourists, Ralf Buckley, Claudia Ollenburg
Car Decals As A New Data Source For Self-Drive Tourists, Ralf Buckley, Claudia Ollenburg
Claudia Ollenburg
Self drive domestic tourism is one of the largest subsectors of the tourism industry. According to the US Travel Association, 85% of overnight trips in the USA are self drive travel (Mandala 2011). In Australia, self-drive tourism is a major component of the large and often underestimated VFR travel subsector (Backer 2011). Self-drive travellers make up a major component in many economic valuations of recreational demand (Fleming and Cook 2008). Shifts between driving and other modes of transport may be a critical aspect of the interactions between tourism and climate change (Becken and Wilson 2007; Koo et al. 2010).