چكيده لاتين :
Domestic tourism has an important role in socio-economic
development in several ways including creating jobs and
improving income distribution, Although sever al researches
have been done on tourism demand, a small proportion ofthem
have been on domestic tourism, In this paper, the price and
expenditure elasticities of the household demand for domestic
tourism in Iran, focusing on the case of Hamedan Province, are
estimated by the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) model.
The data set used is of a cross-section type and has been
collected from Hamedan tourists regarding their domestic trips.
This data set includes 504 domestic tourist households that
their trips last at least one overnight in Hamedan province in
summer of 2003. The expenditure elasticity r esults for food,
accommodation, transportation, visit fees (entrance fees to
enter the points of interest), and souvenirs commodity groups
are estimated by about 1.34, 1.32, 1.47, 0.36 and 0.47,
respectively, and for total trip to provinces were close to one.
The price elasticities of demand for the five commodity groups
and for total trips to provinces are less than one. This implies
that an increase ill the total budget of the household yearly trips
would be allocated by a smaller proportion to Hamedan trip as
compared to other provinces. Another implication is that an
increase in the price of visit fees, for example, can increase the
total receipts to compensate the high costs of repair and
maintenance ofthe valuable points of interest.
