Drug tourism motivation of Chinese outbound tourists: Scale development and validation

Wen, Jun; Meng, Fang; Ying, Tianyu; Qi, Hongxia; Lockyer, Tim

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2017.08.001

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“…Relaxation is the extent to which users perceive themselves as experiencing a state of low tension. Relaxation is an important motivation for leisure activities, such as watch online video, playing computer games, and listening to music (Park et al, 2011;Wen et al, 2018). Relaxation can help individuals to be…”

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Exploring the Benefit and Sacrifice Factors of Virtual Reality Gameplay

2020

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Although Virtual reality (VR) entertainment is now relatively popular, the adoption of VR devices is still low. In this study, a framework based benefit and sacrifice factors was developed to understand players' intention to use VR devices to play games. Online questionnaire items were developed and published to collect the responses from university students in Taiwan. The feedback of 152 inexperienced players and 150 experienced players were collected. The eleven hypotheses were tested by using SmartPLS, a structural equation modeling (SEM) tool. The analysis results show that the influences of the benefit factors (flow, spatial presence, and relaxation) on the adoption intention in two groups are consistent. All of the positive influences are supported. Moreover, visual fatigue had the strongest negative effects on flow and intention. Players who are opener to new technology are more possible to adopt VR devices. The findings can provide insights to VR device developers to design their VR devices/contents and marketing strategies.

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“…Cannabis tourism is an area of growing interest among tourism scholars. Studies have explored recreational marijuana management in Colorado (Keul & Eisenhauer, 2019;Taylor, 2016), definitions of marijuana tourism (Taylor, 2018), cannabis tourism motivations (Wen, Meng, Ying, Qi, & Lockyer, 2018), and cannabis tourist segmentation (Wen, Meng, Ying, & Belhassen, 2019) among other topics. Given the nature of cannabis consumption in many contemporary societies, tourists' involvement in cannabis tourism has been recognized as deviant (Belhassen, Santos, & Uriely, 2007) if such behavior is either illegal or socially unacceptable in tourists' home countries (e.g., cannabis-oriented tourists from China).…”

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“…In the current research note, deviant behavior (e.g., cannabis consumption) is illegal and violates accepted norms of conduct in tourists' home environment (e.g., China) but is accepted in overseas tourist destinations. For example, cannabis consumption is considered a cause of numerous social and health problems in China but is perceived quite differently in some Western cultures (e.g., Amsterdam and Colorado), where recreational use of cannabis is considered beneficial for spiritual healing and relaxation (Wen et al, 2018).…”

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“…From the consumer's perspective, cannabis-oriented tourists are also internally motivated to participate in cannabis tourism for pursuing spiritual and emotional healing, social prestige, and relaxation and escape. Occasionally, consumers are simply interested in cannabis experimentation (Wen et al, 2018). Cannabis consumption has become one of primary tourism appeals, a trend that provides opportunities for insightful exploration of tourists' interpretations of deviant behavior in a tourism context.…”

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Is Cannabis Tourism Deviant? A Theoretical Perspective

Ying¹,

Wen²,

Shan³

2019

Tourism Review International

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With the growth of cannabis tourism, destinations such as the Netherlands have begun to offer cannabis-related products and services to visitors, including tourists from countries where all drugs are strictly prohibited. Yet limited research has sought to understand cannabis-oriented tourists' efforts to neutralize deviant connotations, namely by justifying or rationalizing misbehavior, when deciding to participate in cannabis tourism. This research note proposes a framework of deviant consumption behavior (DCB) constructed of geographic shifting, self-identity shifting, and moral identity shifting from the perspective of cannabis-oriented tourists to delineate tourists' decision-making process around engaging in deviant behaviors. The proposed framework suggests that previously developed DCB frameworks in the marketing and consumer behavior literature should be adapted for use in outbound tourism research. This research note also highlights areas for debate and investigation regarding cannabis tourists' deviant behavior. Future research directions are provided based on the proposed framework as it applies to deviant tourism research.

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“…Recently, Wen et al (2020) made an initial attempt through a tourism lens to investigate the effects of misleading media coverage on public health crises based on the NCP outbreak. Wen et al (2018)…”

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Rethinking game consumption in tourism: a case of the 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak in China

Ying

Wang

Liu

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Tourism Recreation Research

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This opinion piece highlights a lethal connection between novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) and wildlife consumption in tourism. While NCP continues to make headlines in the mainstream media, little academic research has considered this illness, especially through the lens of food neophilic tourism. Yet this research stream requires attention, particularly because food is a key motivational factor behind tourists' travel and destination choices. In the case of food neophilic tourism, visitors directly consume wildlife and other exotic cuisine. Unfortunately, this noveltyseeking behavior may pose health risks; wild and exotic animals can carry deadly viruses that have been found to trigger global health epidemics such as SARS, H1N1, bird flu, and NCP. Despite international government agencies' legislative efforts to control wild and exotic animal consumption, demand from food neophilic tourists continues to increase. This paper initiates a dialogue urging tourism scholars to study food tourism and offers practical and theoretical insight to contextualize this perennial and pertinent phenomenon. ARTICLE HISTORY KEYWORDSNovel coronavirus pneumonia; food neophilic tourists; food tourism; wild and exotic animal consumption TOURISM RECREATION RESEARCH https://doi.

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Drug tourism motivation of Chinese outbound tourists: Scale development and validation

Cited by 70 publications

References 63 publications

Exploring the Benefit and Sacrifice Factors of Virtual Reality Gameplay

Exploring the Benefit and Sacrifice Factors of Virtual Reality Gameplay

Is Cannabis Tourism Deviant? A Theoretical Perspective

Rethinking game consumption in tourism: a case of the 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak in China

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