Tourism Product Conjoint Analysis

Tourism product conjoint analysis is a decompositional preference-measurement technique that breaks travellers' overall judgments of holiday packages into the separate contributions, or part-worths, of each package attribute. Building on the conjoint framework articulated by Green and Srinivasan (1978), the method presents respondents with whole travel-package profiles, each combining levels of attributes such as price, trip duration, board basis, accommodation class and included activities, and asks them to rate or rank the packages. From these holistic evaluations it statistically recovers how much each attribute level adds to or subtracts from preference, and how important each attribute is overall. Unlike choice-based methods that model selection among alternatives, traditional ratings-based conjoint treats preference as a quantity to be decomposed, making it a natural tool for designing and optimising tourism products and bundles.