Methods for the Redistribution of Tourist Expenditure in Spain: From EGATUR to Reallocation Matrices

• Diego Frade-Amil ^[2] ; Manuel Oviedo de la Fuente ^[1] ; Salvador Naya ^[1] ; Javier Tarrío-Saavedra ^[1] ; Luisa Carpente ^[1] ; Mario Francisco-Fernández ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade da Coruña

     Universidade da Coruña

     A Coruña, España

     
  2. [2] Universidade de Coruña
• Localización: Proceedings XoveTIC 2025: Impulsando el talento científico / coord. por Manuel Lagos Rodríguez, Hilda Romero-Velo, Álvaro Leitao , Javier Pereira-Loureiro , Manuel Penedo , 2026, ISBN 978-84-9749-925-5, págs. 193-198
• Idioma: inglés
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  • To estimate the expenditures made by foreign visitors in Spain, the National Statis-tics Institute (INE) produces the “Tourist Expenditure Survey” (EGATUR), which allocates allspending to the main destination region, even if it was not fully carried out there. Consequently,there arises a need to redistribute expenditure across the Autonomous Communities actually vis-ited, for which we rely on supplementary information from transactions with foreign bank cards.Our proposal is to estimate a reallocation matrix whose elements allow the redistribution of ex-penditure from the main destination regions to all those effectively visited. Several approachesare explored, including constrained least squares, overnight-stay proportion matrices, and DataEnvelopment Analysis (DEA), among others.