4. Data and model specification
4.1. Data
The accommodation price data used in the analysis is taken
from the tourist brochures of the coastal districts. These
brochures, as well as containing the marketing and promotional
information about the district, list all of the businesses
providing accommodation with details on the number of beds,
price per room or per unit and the facilities of each accommodation
unit. From the 146 coastal districts, it was possible to
calculate price data for 92 districts, which is more than what is
available from the official statistics.2 The tourism marketing
strategy of Schleswig-Holstein divides the state into four
regions: the North Sea coast, the Baltic Sea coast, inland and
cities and large towns. As cities and large towns are marketed
separately, such districts were not included in the analysis.3
Furthermore, city or urban tourism is quite different from the
rural coastal tourism under examination here.