However, the diary might include expenditures for only 2 of the 4 days. Another inconsistency involved expenditures for hotels. Respondents with their own arrangements commonly listed hotel expenditures for the first day, leaving the diary expenditure for hotels blank on following days. After discovering this discrepancy, we went back into the data file and keyed the same hotel expenditure figure into the diary for each day the hotel expenditure was left blank, except for the last day, which presumably had no overnight accommodation expenditure. Several situations tend to create a lower per person per day lodging rate than may have been anticipated.
Lodging includes accommodations other than hotels, such as by host or through a contest.
Most importantly, persons on prepaid package tours do not provide a diary listing for hotel expenditures. Children under the age of 18 years are included in average daily expenditure computations. Because of the small sample of the survey, caution is urged in using the survey results for economic analysis. This Special Report is a joint project by the Department of Commerce and the Bureau of Planning. Special thanks to Georgette Paulino, Rose Deaver, Susan Hamm and Monica Guerrero.