A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Travel Push and Pull Factors

You, Xinran; O’Leary, Joseph T.; Morrison, Alastair M.; Hong, Gong‐Soog

doi:10.1300/j149v01n02_01

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“…Whereas push factors refer to the forces that push individuals from home and make decision to travel, pull factors simultaneously pull them toward a specific destination. Thus, destination marketers and promoters in the tourism industry should keep in mind about the importance of travel motivations, and give more marketing efforts to matching the main attributes of a destination with the needs and expectations of potential customers [21], [22].…”

Section: A Travel Motivationmentioning

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The Influences of Push and Pull Factors on the International Leisure Tourists’ Return Intention to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — A Mediation Analysis of Destination Satisfaction

Khương¹,

Thi²,

Hà³

2014

IJTEF

105

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Abstract-The purpose of this research was to examine empirically the causal relationships among push and pull travel motivations, destination satisfaction and return intention of international leisure tourists in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The research conceptual framework and hypotheses were constructed, based on previous theoretical and empirical studies. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 426 respondents to collect the primary data. Multiple regression and Path analyses were conducted to test the research hypotheses. As a result, push and pull factors had directly positive influences on tourist's return intention to Vietnam. In addition, the results also showed that push and pull factors were indirectly affected tourist's return intention through their destination satisfaction. Consequently, business organizations working in the tourism sector should take into account the essential roles of push and pull factors, in order to attract more potential visitors, enhance their destination satisfaction and encourage them to re-visit Vietnam.Index Terms-Travel motivation, push and pull factors, destination satisfaction, return intention.

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Section: A Travel Motivationmentioning

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The Influences of Push and Pull Factors on the International Leisure Tourists’ Return Intention to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — A Mediation Analysis of Destination Satisfaction

Khương¹,

Thi²,

Hà³

2014

IJTEF

105

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“…For example, tourists from the UK, Germany, France and Japan show the same push factors but different pull factors (Yuan & McDonald, 1990). You, O'Leary, Morrison, & Hong, (2000) discovered that Japanese and UK tourists have significant differences not only on pull factors but also push factors. It seems likely, therefore, that people may also have different motivations for attending music festivals according to their different cultures.…”

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Music festival motivation in China: free the mind

Wood

2014

Leisure Studies

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This paper explores the extent to which music festival attendance is 'universally' motivated or determined by the Chinese cultural and socio-political context.A novel qualitative approach was employed comprising observation of social media conversations and 'chat room' interviews with members of a festival online community. Seven motivators were identified, some similar to those in Western studies but others more specific to festival-goers in mainland China.The culturally specific motivators were identified as 'spiritual escape' and 'spiritual pursuit' and the universal motivators as 'togetherness', 'love of the music', 'novel experience', 'music sharing', and 'educational enrichment'. This paper focuses on the two culturally embedded motivators only.The implications of the study are that, although, growing, there are still very few music festivals featuring 'pop' or 'western' style music and these few are relatively new to Chinese people. Their attendance at them is, therefore, motivated differently to attendees at similar festivals in western countries. These motivating factors are mediated by the particular social, political and cultural factors at work in this complex country. The findings indicate that although many of the motivational factors for attending a music festival appear to be universal there are clearly factors which are culturally bound and therefore unique to the cultural context. These differences appear to be created by the social constraints, rapidly changing economy and the many contradictions inherent in modern mainland China. These conditions create a greater contrast between everyday life in mainland China and the liminal hedonistic space provided by the Festival. Further research is needed to validate theses initial findings within China and to explore how rock music festival motivations differ in other non-western cultures.

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“…With respect to the tourism industry, numerous studies take as reference the country dimension to explain different aspects of tourist consumer behaviour: information search behaviour Gursoy & Umbreit, 2004), hospitality (McCleary, Choi, & Weber, 1998;Mok & Armstrong, 1998;Yuksel et al, 2006), destinations (Iverson, 1997;Kozak, 2002;Lee & Lee, 2009;Sakakida, Cole, & Card, 2004;You, O'Leary, Morrison, & Hong, 2000) and airline passengers (Kim & Prideaux, 2003). But although the presence of cultural differences and their impact has been dealt with in many aspects of human behaviour, very few studies analyse tourists' perceptions and their attitude and behaviour towards an urban destination in terms of their country of residence.…”

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confidence: 99%