Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism: Locating Asia, Cultural Differences and Trends

Yang, Elaine Chiao Ling; Lee, Jenna Seung Hyun; Khoo‐Lattimore, Catheryn

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-7980-1_1

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“…This study identified a few cultural considerations that influenced the selection of push and pull factors, PTRs and PTCs among senior tourists. Asian tourist behavior is often linked to collectivism and uncertainty avoidance (Yang et al , 2018). Therefore, to better understand Asian senior tourists’ decision-making, it was crucial to investigate factors such as destination familiarity and friendliness, spending time with family, interpersonal constraints and functional risks, among others.…”

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Senior tourism: travel motivators and perceived constraints and risks for the elderly

Aggarwal

Hajra

Kukreja

2023

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Purpose To cater to the senior tourist market, it is essential to comprehend the factors motivating and deterring them from international travel post-COVID-19. This study aims to focus on senior citizens’ destination choice intentions and aims to develop a model that prioritizes positive and negative factors leading to international travel destination choices. It uses push–pull factors, perceived travel risks (PTRs) and perceived travel constraints (PTCs). Design/methodology/approach Decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) and fuzzy technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (Fuzzy TOPSIS) are two multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques used to identify connections between variables and determine their relative importance in the decision-making model. Findings DEMATEL found push and pull factors are “effects” while PTCs and PTRs are “causes” affecting senior citizens’ destination choices. Push factors and PTCs have a greater impact than pull factors and PTRs. Fuzzy TOPSIS highlighted “improving health and wellness” and “self-fulfillment and spirituality” as key push factors, “health safety and security quotient” as the most important pull factor, and “interpersonal constraints” as the most critical PTC. Finally, “health risks” is the top PTR. Originality/value This paper adds to the tourism literature by looking at the relationship between senior tourists’ motivation, PTRs and PTCs and showing how the subfactors affect their choice of destination rank. The data analysis techniques used in this study are also novel, having never been used before in senior tourism research. Finally, even though there is a lot of research on senior tourism, not much is known about how Indian senior tourists act. In light of this study’s findings, practical recommendations were offered to tourism stakeholders worldwide, interested in tapping into the market of Indian outbound senior tourists or repositioning product or destination offerings to take this promising market or similar markets into account.

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Senior tourism: travel motivators and perceived constraints and risks for the elderly

Aggarwal

Hajra

Kukreja

2023

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“…Communal characteristics of Confucianism such as respect for, and subordination to older family members were evident in the data but interestingly, traces of individualism also showed up in some of the young respondents. In the increasing call for tourism scholars to decolonise research on and/or by Asians (Mura & Khoo-Lattimore, 2018;Yang, Lee, & Khoo-Lattimore, 2018), this study contributes to existing theoretical frameworks investigating Chinese travellers with specific constructs for empirical testing.…”

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The Constructions of Family Holidays in Young Middle-class Malaysian Chinese Children

Khoo‐Lattimore

Yang

2018

Journal of China Tourism Research

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The absence of children in tourism research has been identified by past scholars but the rising attention on Asian consumers in tourism has also implied that the voices of Chinese children need to be heard. This study triangulates fourteen young Malaysian Chinese children's drawings of their favourite family holidays with open-ended interview questions. The drawings were analysed using the five thematic levels according to a model of analysis of children's drawings. Findings revealed the collectivistic Confucian values of family and education during vacations, but also highlight what Chinese children conceptualised as fun holiday activities. A number of suggestions are provided for future research and for tourism practitioners to provide memorable holiday experiences for their young travellers.

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“…Forer 2005), little is known about subsequent pathways along which international tourists travel. Behavior of tourist flow can differ based on geographical, socioeconomic, demographic, psychographics and behavioral characteristics (Forer 2005;Bigné et al 2007;Yang et al 2018). For example, unlike European tourists, Indian and Chinese tourists spend their first few days in Auckland, the main point of arrival into New Zealand before heading elsewhere.…”

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Biosecurity and post-arrival pathways in New Zealand: relating alien organism detections to tourism indicators

Robinson¹,

McNeill²

2022

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Between-country tourism is established as a facilitator of the spread of invasive alien species; however, little attention has been paid to the question of whether tourism contributes to the arrival and subsequent dispersal of exotic organisms within national borders. To assess the strength of evidence that tourism is a driver for the accidental introducing and dispersal of exotic organisms, we sourced three national databases covering the years 2011 to 2017, namely international and domestic hotel guest nights and national population counts, along with records of exotic organism detections collected by the Ministry for Primary Industries, New Zealand’s government agency that oversees biosecurity. We fitted statistical models to assess the strength of the relationship between monthly exotic organism interception rate, guest nights and population, the latter as a baseline. The analysis showed that levels of incursion detection were significantly related to tourism records reflecting the travel of both international and domestic tourists, even when population was taken into account. There was also a significant positive statistical correlation between the levels of detection of exotic organisms and human population. The core take-home message is that a key indicator of within-country human population movement, namely the number of nights duration spent in specific accommodation, is statistically significantly correlated to the contemporaneous detection of exotic pests. We were unable to distinguish between the effects of international as opposed to domestic tourists. We conclude that this study provides evidence of impact of within-country movement upon the internal spread of exotic species, although important caveats need to be considered.

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Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism: Locating Asia, Cultural Differences and Trends

Cited by 10 publications

References 38 publications

Senior tourism: travel motivators and perceived constraints and risks for the elderly

Senior tourism: travel motivators and perceived constraints and risks for the elderly

The Constructions of Family Holidays in Young Middle-class Malaysian Chinese Children

Biosecurity and post-arrival pathways in New Zealand: relating alien organism detections to tourism indicators

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Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism: Locating Asia, Cultural Differences and Trends

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Senior tourism: travel motivators and perceived constraints and risks for the elderly

Senior tourism: travel motivators and perceived constraints and risks for the elderly

The Constructions of Family Holidays in Young Middle-class Malaysian Chinese Children

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