Uncategorized Expenditure of Tourists - An Empirical Study in Northeast India

Abstract

Economic benefits generated horn the tourists' visit have been well documented and recognised. Conside ring the multifarious economic benefits derived from tourists' spending, much emphasis has been laid down on gathering travel expenditure data. A peep at tourism literatures indicate that tourists' from diverse backgrounds behave differently at the destination areas and hence expenditures incurred by them take various forms. lnterestingly, all forms of tourists' expenditures may not be beneficial for the local economy to the projected extent. As the nature of tourists' expenditure on vacations a re discretionary, it is crucial to understand their spending behaviours and underlying factors affecting such behaviours. Tourists' expenditures usually can be brokendown into Categorized and Uncategorized expenditures. The findings indicate that, an emerging destination show that uncategorized form of expenditure constitutes a sizeable proportion of tourists' trip budget but the extent of such expenditures incurred by tourists significantly differs across their place of origin.