The variable "Appraisal" captures consumer appraisals of the specific hot spring resort where the respondent was surveyed.The tourists'subjective appraisal of the visited destination (distinct from medical appraisal) was determinedaccording to whether the respondent would stay an additional day at the location,based solely on their personal assessments of the location's healthfulness and assuming that the additional day had not been explicitly recommended by health professionals. The responses were measured on a four-point scale and transformed into a dummy variable that is 1 for"yes"or"maybe",and 0 for"no"or"maybe not".