Do perceptions of time affect outbound-travel motivations and intention? An investigation among Chinese seniors

Lü, Jian; Hung, Kam; Wang, Lili; Schuett, Michael A.; Hu, Liang

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2015.09.003

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“…According to the UNWTO Tourism Towards 2030 research project, the number of international tourists will grow by 3.3% each year beginning from 2010, and this growth will culminate in 1.8 billion international tourists in 2030 [2]. Relevant research has found that international tourism is conducive to the increase of foreign exchange earnings, job creation, and tax revenues, as well as to the improvement of core competitiveness, and plays an important role in global economic recovery [1,3,4]. Therefore, determining how to enhance the competitiveness of the domestic tourism market and attract more international tourists has become a major challenge faced by academics and industry practitioners.…”

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“…Thus, this research aims to examine how Chinese outbound tourists' positive emotions and behavioral intentions can be elicited by modeling the relationships among MTEs, the "fun" emotion, recommendation and revisit intentions, and perceived risk based on the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) model [32], which suggests that MTEs (stimulus) elicit the "fun" emotion (organism), which ultimately leads to recommendation and revisit intentions (response). Specifically, this research has the following four objectives: (1) to identify psychological factors that affect Chinese outbound tourists' MTEs; (2) to investigate the relationships among Chinese outbound tourists' MTEs, positive emotions, such as fun, and their recommendation and revisit intentions; (3) to examine the moderating influence between Chinese outbound tourists' "fun" emotion and positive behavioral intentions; (4) to determine how global destination marketers respond to these experiential factors and risk probability to better position their destinations. Based on these objectives, this study can help international tourist destination marketers establish ongoing relationships with Chinese tourists and ultimately promote their market share and revenue.…”

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Make It Memorable: Tourism Experience, Fun, Recommendation and Revisit Intentions of Chinese Outbound Tourists

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Due to the fact that Chinese tourists are becoming the main players in the international tourism market, with large growth potential, this research empirically identifies the psychological factors that affect Chinese outbound tourists’ memorable tourism experiences (MTEs), and investigates the relationships among MTEs, the “fun” emotion, and their recommendation and revisit intentions based on the stimulus–organism–response (S-O-R) model. In addition, the moderating role of perceived risk between the causal relationships among the “fun” emotion and recommendation and revisit intentions is identified. A total of 560 survey participants who had experienced overseas tourism in the last two years were selected as the target population, and the data from 413 valid surveys were empirically analyzed via structural equation modeling (SEM). Chinese outbound tourists’ MTEs, such as hedonism, novelty, meaningfulness, and social interaction, are found to positively influence their experience of the “fun” emotion, such as emotional spark and flow. Additionally, it is found that when Chinese outbound tourists have achieved a high level of the “fun” emotion, their intentions to recommend and revisit their destination will be stronger. In addition, perceived risk is found to have a negative moderating role in the causal relationships among emotional spark and recommendation and revisit intentions, and also has negative moderating effects on the causal relationship between flow and recommendation intentions. This study provides important practical insights for how international tourist destination marketers and managers provide Chinese tourists with MTEs, and how to elicit the “fun” emotion and loyalty behaviors from Chinese tourists via the investigation of the mechanism of MTEs, fun, and recommendation and revisit intentions. It is also found that it is beneficial for international tourist destination managers to lower the level of tourists’ perceived risk to improve tourists’ recommendation and revisit intentions. These findings can aid in the development of more effective strategies to increase the market share and the international competitiveness of destinations.

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Make It Memorable: Tourism Experience, Fun, Recommendation and Revisit Intentions of Chinese Outbound Tourists

2020

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“…Th is methodology has the advantage of making it possible to get in touch with a large number of respondents without depending exclusively on the researchers' contacts (cf. Lu, Hung, Wang, Schuett, & Hu, 2016). Snowball sampling has been used frequently to study Chinese tourists (Hsu & Song, 2013), who are usually elusive.…”

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Young Chinese in Europe

Lojo

2020

Tourism (Zagreb, Online)

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Chinese tourism in Europe has tripled over the last decade to reach 6 million tourists in 2018. Understanding tourist behavior allows for improvement of the tourist experience and better management of destinations. To these ends, this study analyzes (1) the motivations, expectations and satisfaction of Chinese tourists and (2) defines the main differences between young Chinese (18-29 years old) and more mature Chinese tourists. Data is extracted from 360 survey questionnaires that were administered to tourists after their trips to Europe. Destination Spain, in Western Europe, is selected as the case study. Mean analysis, one-factor ANOVA and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) have been conducted. The results show that more mature travelers have significant differences in the travel arrangements, motivations, expectations and evaluations of their trips than do younger travelers. Younger tourists chose independent trips, while the more mature ones chose either full group packages or independent trips. The younger have a wider range of motivations and preferences for activities at their destinations. New trends in Chinese tourists visiting Europe are discussed and implications for the destination are explored

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“…Tourist motivation is a reason for someone to decide to visit a particular tourist attraction, and to understand someone's motivation can be done by identifying the reasons for tourists traveling [2]. Motivation can encourage the intention of tourists to visit foreign countries based on different needs [3].…”

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Factors that Affect Tourist to Visit Kalibiru Tourist Village

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Mulia²

2020

Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Management Research (AICMaR 2019)

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The purpose of the study is to investigate the important factors that affect the decision of the tourist to visit the touristic area i.e.-Kalibiru Tourist Village‖ which is located in Yogyakarta Province-Indonesia. It is important because number of visitors of that area is declining from time to time. Three independent variables were selected these are Travel Motivation, Electronic Word-of-Mouth (E-WoM), Destination Image. Two hundred and five respondents involved on this study, all the respondents have already had an experience in visiting the area. The structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is used to analyze the data by using statistics application LISREL. The study revealed that all variables are significant affect the tourist decision to visit the area.

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Do perceptions of time affect outbound-travel motivations and intention? An investigation among Chinese seniors

Cited by 109 publications

References 80 publications

Make It Memorable: Tourism Experience, Fun, Recommendation and Revisit Intentions of Chinese Outbound Tourists

Make It Memorable: Tourism Experience, Fun, Recommendation and Revisit Intentions of Chinese Outbound Tourists

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Factors that Affect Tourist to Visit Kalibiru Tourist Village

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