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Average Direct Expenditure per day Expenditure data has been gleaned from the DOT visitor surveys for 2005 and 2006. In a similar manner to the „length of stay‟, for our reference year of 2005/2006 an average for the „expenditure per day‟ between the sample survey data for the Year 2005 and the Year 2006 has been adopted. Using the „country of residence‟ and the „purpose of visit‟ as a way of segmenting the total figures allows one to take into account the considerable disparity in „length of stay‟ and „expenditure per day‟ between individual tourist arrivals. The base figures for expenditure per day are shown in Table A3.2. Ideally it is „good practice‟ to focus upon expenditure with relative sampling errors below 25%, but this has not always been possible in this process. Relative Sampling Errors are 1.96 times Standard Error - 95% confidence level. 44
ANNEX 4: SAME-DAY VISITORS – INTERNATIONAL INBOUND 1. General Expenditure by Same-Day Visitors is part of Inbound Tourism Expenditure as required in Table 1 of the TSA. In a country with a large physical area, with many road border posts, and often with strong ties between family/friends across borders, and frequent commercial relationships between neighbouring border towns, inevitably same-day visitors (day visitors) can be substantial. For Botswana, there are many ties with South Africa and also with Zimbabwe. For the latter country, there are exceptional circumstances leading to travel which looks like tourism travel in that Zimbabweans are visiting Botswana in ever increasing numbers. But it is difficult to distinguish between genuine same-day tourist travel, cross border travel which is really within the usual environment (frequency/distance) and other travel, such as short-term visits for the purpose of picking up casual employment through the week and going home at the weekend, which are not tourism visits because the traveller is being employed in the country visited, etc. (e.g. Zimbabweans in Francistown, as the DOT interviewers found in anecdotal discussions in Ramokgwebana – see Photo A4.1 of Ramokgwebana border post above, the interviewers in the foreground). 2. Same-day visitor numbers The Visitor Arrival Statistics, from CSO/ DOT, indicate that Day Visitors in 2004 were 204,000 and provisional figures for 2005 were 210,000. Provisional figures for 2005/2006 indicate a total of around 213,000 day visitors. Table A4.1: Breakdown of Day visitors by Country of Residence for 2005/2006 Other 3% Namibia 5% South Africa 42% Zambia 1% Zimbabwe 50% The same-day visitors are primarily from the neighbours, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and to a much smaller extent from Namibia and Zambia. In addition there are small numbers from other countries of residence but these are people visiting South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia, and just coming over for a daytrip to Botswana, or indeed transiting Botswana (e.g. Germans transiting to Namibia). 3. Day visitor spend per trip Expenditure data has been gleaned from the DOT visitor surveys for those respondents who indicated that they were not staying the night in Botswana. Expenditure statistics are available for same-day visitors from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. Sample numbers from Zambia are too small to allow reasonable estimates of such spending. Median expenditures for Day visitors are similar for all three of the fore-mentioned neighbouring countries at around Pula 50 per day visit. The differences in the arithmetic means are caused by relatively small numbers of higher than average spenders. The high spending derives from either „shopping spending‟ or from 45
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